{"id":8457,"date":"2012-05-16T15:49:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T14:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=8457"},"modified":"2013-05-20T17:00:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T16:00:53","slug":"hastings-jack-in-the-green-procession-2012-marching-green-men-morris-dancers-and-drummers-galore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/hastings-jack-in-the-green-procession-2012-marching-green-men-morris-dancers-and-drummers-galore\/","title":{"rendered":"Hastings Jack In The Green Procession 2012: marching green men, morris dancers and drummers galore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hastings Jack In The Green: The Grand Procession, High Street, Hastings England UK, Monday 7th May 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/hastings-grand-procession-05.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"445\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love mad stuff like this. Every Mayday bank holiday weekend, the south coast town of Hastings turns into a place for mass Pagan celebrations, with a series of traditional events taking place around the town and castle.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hastings Jack In The Green: The Grand Procession, High Street, Hastings England UK, Monday 7th May 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/hastings-grand-procession-24.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"421\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The main event is the huge procession that goes around the town. Here&#8217;s some photos:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hastings Jack In The Green: The Grand Procession, High Street, Hastings England UK, Monday 7th May 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/hastings-grand-procession-61.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"444\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hastings Jack In The Green: The Grand Procession, High Street, Hastings England UK, Monday 7th May 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/hastings-grand-procession-08.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"440\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hastings Jack In The Green: The Grand Procession, High Street, Hastings England UK, Monday 7th May 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/hastings-grand-procession-24.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"421\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hastings Jack In The Green: The Grand Procession, High Street, Hastings England UK, Monday 7th May 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/hastings-grand-procession-33.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hastings Jack In The Green: The Grand Procession, High Street, Hastings England UK, Monday 7th May 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/hastings-grand-procession-34.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"386\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hastings Jack In The Green: The Grand Procession, High Street, Hastings England UK, Monday 7th May 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/hastings-grand-procession-41.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"407\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hastings Jack In The Green: The Grand Procession, High Street, Hastings England UK, Monday 7th May 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/hastings-grand-procession-45.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"428\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hastings Jack In The Green: The Grand Procession, High Street, Hastings England UK, Monday 7th May 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/hastings-grand-procession-49.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"401\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hastings Jack In The Green: The Grand Procession, High Street, Hastings England UK, Monday 7th May 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/images\/hastings-grand-procession-65.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See loads more photos here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/hastings-grand-procession-2012.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hastings Jack In The Green: The Grand Procession<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love mad stuff like this. Every Mayday bank holiday weekend, the south coast town of Hastings turns into a place for mass Pagan celebrations, with a series of traditional &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12380,"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":[50,442,340,333,444,217],"class_list":["post-8457","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-pagan","tag-sussex"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/hastings-grand-procession-051.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-2cp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457","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=8457"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12382,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457\/revisions\/12382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}