{"id":658,"date":"2009-05-21T10:50:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T10:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=658"},"modified":"2009-05-21T10:50:56","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T10:50:56","slug":"the-woman-with-the-red-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=658","title":{"rendered":"The Woman with the Red Balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were actually hundreds of them. Women, children and even men with red balloons, but I&#8217;d elected to follow just one of them on her <a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/#circle\" target=\"_blank\">walk around the city<\/a> (continuing a choice I made over 45 years ago, but this isn&#8217;t the place to discuss the events of the sixties.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2009\/05\/17\/20090517-d0573.jpg\" title=\"\u00a9 2009 Peter Marshall. \" alt=\"\u00a9 2009 Peter Marshall. \" height=\"600\" width=\"399\" \/> <em><br \/>\nThe woman with the red balloon takes the wrong turning<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Of course I photographed some of the others, but a story sometimes needs a structure, and here was a hackneyed photojournalistic approach which fitted in with one small part of my familial duties.<\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2009\/05\/17\/20090517-d0527.jpg\" title=\"\u00a9 2009 Peter Marshall.\" alt=\"\u00a9 2009 Peter Marshall.\" height=\"298\" width=\"450\" \/><br \/>\nSome of the other walkers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This six-mile trek from church to church (mainly Wren to Wren) around the City of London &#8211; with a diversion via the City of Southwark &#8211; came at the end of Christian Aid Week, and was their\u00a0 &#8216;<em>Circle the City<\/em>,&#8217; a fund-raising sponsored stroll, fuelled by tea, coffee, lemon squash, biscuits, home-made cakes and a desire to support the work of the majority world projects that Christian Aid supports, helping people to help themselves out of destitution and give them hope.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2009\/05\/17\/20090517-d0677.jpg\" title=\"\u00a9 2009 Peter Marshall.\" alt=\"\u00a9 2009 Peter Marshall.\" height=\"298\" width=\"450\" \/><em><br \/>\nWalkers relax in Wren&#8217;s St Anne and St Agnes,\u00a0 at the end of the six mile walk<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were actually hundreds of them. Women, children and even men with red balloons, but I&#8217;d elected to follow just one of them on her walk around the city (continuing a choice I made over 45 years ago, but this isn&#8217;t the place to discuss the events of the sixties.) The woman with the red &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=658\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Woman with the Red Balloon<\/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-658","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\/658","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=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}