{"id":707,"date":"2005-02-02T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-02T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=707"},"modified":"2005-02-02T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-02T11:53:00","slug":"masked-ball-at-the-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/masked-ball-at-the-va\/","title":{"rendered":"Masked Ball at the V&amp;A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/act03.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"220\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, I checked out the Masked Ball at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a>, South Kensington, London. The theme was beauty, and the evening promised mask making, dancing lessons,  burlesque and striptease. And admission was free!<\/p>\n<p>The Actionettes and Action Men entertained the crowds with some nifty dance routines, while a 70s\/80s disco battled with the appalling acoustics in the main room. It was fun, but the beer was criminally over priced and the clientele seemed a bit, well, toff-tastic.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/museum.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, I checked out the Masked Ball at the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London. The theme was beauty, and the evening promised mask making, dancing lessons, burlesque &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/act03.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-bp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}