{"id":236,"date":"2008-08-07T16:01:13","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T23:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=236"},"modified":"2008-08-07T16:01:13","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T23:01:13","slug":"winehouse-and-the-barmy-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/08\/07\/winehouse-and-the-barmy-army\/","title":{"rendered":"WINEHOUSE AND THE BARMY ARMY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was at <a title=\"Edgbaston Cricket Ground\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebears.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Edgbaston<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0cricket ground in Birmingham this past weekend to photograph the third test between England and South Africa (which we lost). I wasn&#8217;t so interested in the cricket as the crowds watching. It was a carnival atmosphere in the summer sunshine with nearly half the spectators (mostly middle class, white men) clad in a plethora of bizarre fancy dress outfits. Costumes ranged from cowboys, strippers and zorro to superheroes, cavemen, and my personal favourite, Amy Winehouse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_1054.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-237\" title=\"img_1054\" src=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_1054.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_1054.jpg 425w, https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_1054-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And of course the <a title=\"Barmy Army\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barmy_Army\" target=\"_blank\">Barmy Army<\/a> were in full force.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_1075.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-238\" title=\"img_1075\" src=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_1075.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_1075.jpg 425w, https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_1075-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at Edgbaston\u00c2\u00a0cricket ground in Birmingham this past weekend to photograph the third test between England and South Africa (which we lost). I wasn&#8217;t so interested in the cricket as the crowds watching. It was a carnival atmosphere in the summer sunshine with nearly half the spectators (mostly middle class, white men) clad in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}