{"id":6,"date":"2007-05-23T20:14:57","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T20:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=6"},"modified":"2007-06-20T21:07:28","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T21:07:28","slug":"may-merry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"May Merry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was hard to believe I&#8217;d got there on a Travel Card. London, Zone 6.  From the station I walked through the woods to the village green opposite the Blue Ball pub and into a different world. The May Pageant was headed by ponies with riders in fancy dress, followed by the May Queen in a very smart horse-drawn carriage and the church choir sitting in a trailer on hay bales pulled by Billy O&#8217;Hallorans tractor. The new May Queen and her entourage followed in Young&#8217;s Brewery horse-drawn dray, followed by brownies, beavers, schools, residents associations and more, including the Santa Fe Stagecoach and the Harley Davidson Club, and ending with the Surrey Police.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Walton-on-the-Hill May Pageant (C)2007, Peter Marshall\" title=\"Walton-on-the-Hill May Pageant (C)2007, Peter Marshall\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2007\/05\/19\/070519-d0921.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By the end of the afternoon things were getting edgy and the choirboys had a shootout. You can read more about the May Pageant on <a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2007\/05\/may.htm\">My London Diary<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peter Marshall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was hard to believe I&#8217;d got there on a Travel Card. London, Zone 6. From the station I walked through the woods to the village green opposite the Blue Ball pub and into a different world. The May Pageant was headed by ponies with riders in fancy dress, followed by the May Queen in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=6\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">May Merry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}