{"id":871,"date":"2017-05-08T20:59:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T20:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/?p=871"},"modified":"2017-05-08T20:59:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T20:59:50","slug":"bonkers-and-brilliant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2017\/05\/08\/bonkers-and-brilliant\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonkers and Brilliant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stoke on Trent celebrated submitting their City of Culture bid with an open air spectacular in front of Haney Town Hall. The performance involved drummers, an opera singer on the roof, fountains and fireworks. If this is the sort of entertainment we can expect in a City of Culture, 2021 will be a fantastic year.<\/p>\n<p>The show was called &#8216;There&#8217;s Something in the Water, Duck&#8217; and it was presented by Avanti. My pics don&#8217;t do it justice, so\u00a0click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Su0udgE-wZE\">here<\/a>\u00a0too<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/files\/2017\/05\/bid-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-872\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/files\/2017\/05\/bid-1-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2017\/05\/bid-1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2017\/05\/bid-1-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2017\/05\/bid-1-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2017\/05\/bid-1-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2017\/05\/bid-1-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2017\/05\/bid-1.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/files\/2017\/05\/bid-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-873\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/files\/2017\/05\/bid-2-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2017\/05\/bid-2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2017\/05\/bid-2-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2017\/05\/bid-2-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2017\/05\/bid-2-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2017\/05\/bid-2-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/338\/files\/sites\/338\/2017\/05\/bid-2.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stoke on Trent celebrated submitting their City of Culture bid with an open air spectacular in front of Haney Town Hall. The performance involved drummers, an opera singer on the roof, fountains and fireworks. If this is the sort of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2017\/05\/08\/bonkers-and-brilliant\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":312,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}