{"id":8654,"date":"2012-06-07T17:55:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T16:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=8654"},"modified":"2012-06-07T17:55:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T16:55:45","slug":"pic-of-the-day-lone-fire-eater-south-bank-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/pic-of-the-day-lone-fire-eater-south-bank-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Pic of the day: lone fire eater, South Bank, London"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pic<\/p>\n

Gamely pursuing his craft despite the complete absence of a crowd is this lone fire eater, spotted on London’s South Bank.<\/p>\n

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Although fire-eating dates back many centuries, it grew in popularity during the late Victorian period, and by the late 1880s it had become a\u00a0standard feature in circus and street sideshows.<\/p>\n

\"Pic<\/p>\n

One of the most\u00a0famous\u00a0exponents\u00a0of the art was\u00a0Robert Powell<\/a>, who managed to stun 18th century crowds with his amazing feats of\u00a0swallowing fire, red-hot coals, melted sealing wax and even brimstone.<\/p>\n

Performing in front of British and other European royalty and nobility, Powell was active for\u00a0nearly sixty years and in 1751\u00a0was awarded a purse of gold and a large silver medal for his services.<\/p>\n

[Fire eating<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gamely pursuing his craft despite the complete absence of a crowd is this lone fire eater, spotted on London’s South Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8655,"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":[194,17,193],"tags":[10,139],"class_list":["post-8654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-photos","category-places","tag-london","tag-southbank"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/southbank-fire-eater-london.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-2fA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654","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=8654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8658,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654\/revisions\/8658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}