{"id":903,"date":"2003-11-30T02:09:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-30T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=903"},"modified":"2010-04-22T15:23:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T14:23:56","slug":"903","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/903\/","title":{"rendered":"Big up the National Portrait Gallery!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Big up the National Portrait Gallery!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re around the West End of London, be sure to check out the fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npg.org.uk\/live\/circling.asp\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Circling The Square&#8217;<\/a> photography exhibition, showing pictures taken in the last 160 years in Trafalgar Square.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s some stunning images of demos, peace protests and drunken Scots footie fans, along with some amazing images featuring the coronation procession, suffragette riots, a young Elizabeth Taylor being mobbed by pigeons, Michael Foot, Bertrand Russell, the poll tax demonstrations of 1990, and football&#8217;s World Cup in 2002. On the first floor, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npg.org.uk\/live\/schweppes.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Photographic Portrait Prize 2003<\/a> &#8211; there&#8217;s some top stuff there!<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I&#8217;ve been quaffing in the Albert, followed by a visit to the extremely lively Hobgoblin: the vibe in both pubs was fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>And now the bad news: my &#8216;kin camera still hasn&#8217;t turned up despite several emails and calls to the <em>incredibly shite<\/em> Securicor delivery service (&#8220;why have humans when you can have robotic auto-messages&#8221;) and the mighty Cardiff City lost. At home.<\/p>\n<p>Boo hoooo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big up the National Portrait Gallery! If you&#8217;re around the West End of London, be sure to check out the fabulous &#8216;Circling The Square&#8217; photography exhibition, showing pictures taken in &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sQI7P-903","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","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=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}