{"id":8382,"date":"2012-05-09T10:45:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T09:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=8382"},"modified":"2012-05-16T11:21:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T10:21:00","slug":"crowning-the-queen-of-may-hastings-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/crowning-the-queen-of-may-hastings-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowning the Queen of May, Hastings Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8383\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/crowning-the-queen-of-may-hastings-castle\/crowning-queen-of-may-hastings-00\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/crowning-queen-of-may-hastings-00.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,301\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"crowning-queen-of-may-hastings-00\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/crowning-queen-of-may-hastings-00.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8383\" title=\"crowning-queen-of-may-hastings-00\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/crowning-queen-of-may-hastings-00.jpg\" alt=\"Crowning the Queen of May at Hastings castle\" width=\"620\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/crowning-queen-of-may-hastings-00.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/crowning-queen-of-may-hastings-00-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the site of an ancient castle\u00a0overlooking\u00a0a south coast town, I witnessed a quintessentially\u00a0English scene as the Queen of May was crowned in Hastings, East Sussex.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/crowning-queen-of-may-hastings-31.jpg\" alt=\"Crowning of the Queen of May at Hastings Castle, Hastings, East Sussex, England UK May 2012\" width=\"620\" height=\"424\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0ceremony forms part of the\u00a0&#8216;Hastings Jack in the Green&#8217; celebrations, which sees the town taken over by Morris Dancers, musicians, performers, drummers and legions of real ale drinkers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/crowning-queen-of-may-hastings-06.jpg\" alt=\"Crowning of the Queen of May at Hastings Castle, Hastings, East Sussex, England UK May 2012\" width=\"620\" height=\"410\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The crowning of the Queen of May takes place in the ruins of Hastings Castle.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/crowning-queen-of-may-hastings-03.jpg\" alt=\"Crowning of the Queen of May at Hastings Castle, Hastings, East Sussex, England UK May 2012\" width=\"620\" height=\"443\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/crowning-queen-of-may-hastings-07.jpg\" alt=\"Crowning of the Queen of May at Hastings Castle, Hastings, East Sussex, England UK May 2012\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/crowning-queen-of-may-hastings-14.jpg\" alt=\"Crowning of the Queen of May at Hastings Castle, Hastings, East Sussex, England UK May 2012\" width=\"620\" height=\"376\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/crowning-queen-of-may-hastings-22.jpg\" alt=\"Crowning of the Queen of May at Hastings Castle, Hastings, East Sussex, England UK May 2012\" width=\"620\" height=\"404\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/crowning-queen-of-may-hastings-29.jpg\" alt=\"Crowning of the Queen of May at Hastings Castle, Hastings, East Sussex, England UK May 2012\" width=\"620\" height=\"429\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More photos here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/hastings-may-queen-may-2012.html\" target=\"_blank\">Crowning of the Queen of May in Hastings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the site of an ancient castle\u00a0overlooking\u00a0a south coast town, I witnessed a quintessentially\u00a0English scene as the Queen of May was crowned in Hastings, East Sussex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[17,193],"tags":[50,442,340,333,217],"class_list":["post-8382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos","category-places","tag-dance","tag-hastings","tag-mayday","tag-morris-dancing","tag-sussex"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/crowning-queen-of-may-hastings-00.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-2bc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382","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=8382"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8456,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382\/revisions\/8456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}