{"id":920,"date":"2003-09-28T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-28T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=920"},"modified":"2003-09-28T23:55:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-28T23:55:00","slug":"920","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/920\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Another weekend rolls by&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>Saturday, we grabbed breakfast at the Brixton Lounge and met up with my NYC mate Matt and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teddave.org\" target=\"_blank\">Ted\/Dave<\/a>. Then it was into the West End for lunch in my fave caf\u00e9, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photonet.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Photographers Gallery<\/a> (check out the excellent Japanese fashion devotees exhibition!), followed by a bit of a half hearted stroll down to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/protest\/war54.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stop the War demo<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/vista\/trafsquare.html\" target=\"_blank\">Trafalgar Square<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By chance, I popped into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npg.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">National Portrait Gallery<\/a> and saw a fantastic exhibition of photos called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npg.org.uk\/live\/circling.asp\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Circling the Square&#8217;<\/a>. These featured photos from a selection of demos, protests and celebrations in the Square over the years, and included a great image from an anti-war demo in 1914. Very apt!<\/p>\n<p>Got home to time to watch the teletext roll by, confirming Cardiff&#8217;s 3-0 thrashing of Crewe and then it was down to the Albert for a top night: the new owners Pat and Paul have done a great job of getting a buzz about the place, with free poetry and music in the back yard and free home cooked food. Nuff respec&#8217;!<\/p>\n<p>Sunday we wandered up to Opus caf\u00e9 in Acre Lane for a coffee and a read of the papers with with Marcus (it&#8217;s a small but friendly caf\u00e9 &#8211; highly recommended!) before I went home to try and put together a load of computer bits to make a back up server.<\/p>\n<p>Took some time off  to watch a dreadful piece of cod-Celtic TV tosh, &#8216;Boadicea&#8217;  before aimlessly moving  a load of cables around inside a box and wondering why the PC wasn&#8217;t working. Maybe tomorrow, then&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another weekend rolls by&#8230; Saturday, we grabbed breakfast at the Brixton Lounge and met up with my NYC mate Matt and Ted\/Dave. Then it was into the West End for &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-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sQI7P-920","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","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=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}