{"id":2488,"date":"2014-05-01T15:58:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T14:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2014-05-02T14:29:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T13:29:46","slug":"oxford-mayday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/?p=2488","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Mayday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/2014-05-01-06.26.12-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"SAMSUNG\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/2014-05-01-06.26.12-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/2014-05-01-06.26.12-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>As part of an occasional series \u2013 where I get up early so you don\u2019t have to, as in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/?p=2053\" target=\"_blank\">previous posts on Stonehenge solstice<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0etc. \u2013 a frontline report from Oxford Mayday, which by comparison was a relatively genteel affair \u2013 the only rasta locks I saw were on a security guard, one of many stopping anyone from jumping into the river off Magdalene Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>But from the moment the choir started singing from the top of the tower at 6.00 am, this had a magical quality:\u00a0 green men parading, a terrific samba band up the High St and Oxford buildings looking at their most dreamy in the morning mist.\u00a0 A lot of very hungover and loved up students emerged from clubs and pubs: a strange mixture of disco shorts and dishevelled black tie.\u00a0 And in the middle of it all, a talented band playing mournful latin music in front of the Havana cigar shop\u2026\u2026 what a way to wake up to spring.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 720px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video 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style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/2014-05-01-06.19.33.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2479\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/2014-05-01-06.19.33-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"for those who always have to have a bike with them in Oxford\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/2014-05-01-06.19.33-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/2014-05-01-06.19.33-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">for those who always have to have a bike with them in 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As part of an occasional series \u2013 where I get up early so you don\u2019t have to, as in\u00a0previous posts on Stonehenge solstice\u00a0\u00a0etc. \u2013 a frontline report from Oxford Mayday, which by comparison was a relatively genteel affair \u2013 the only rasta locks I saw were on a security guard, one of many stopping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,5,1],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-2488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-festivals","category-uncategorized","tag-mayday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2495,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions\/2495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}