{"id":10624,"date":"2014-05-02T06:30:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T06:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=10624"},"modified":"2014-05-02T06:30:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T06:30:52","slug":"how-to-plan-a-cycling-protest-demo-the-pop-pedal-on-parliament-2014-event-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/how-to-plan-a-cycling-protest-demo-the-pop-pedal-on-parliament-2014-event-in-edinburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"How to plan a cycling protest demo &#8211; the POP Pedal on Parliament 2014 event in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"775\" height=\"500\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7LKrOZviNk0?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7LKrOZviNk0?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"775\" height=\"500\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nIt is good to have<br \/>\n&#8211; scenic drama, with the route planned by a landscape architect<br \/>\n&#8211; emotional music, planned by a musical director and extending along the whole route<br \/>\n&#8211; a persuasive narrative, with speeches by children, activists and politicians<br \/>\n&#8211; good co-opration from the police<br \/>\n&#8211; jokes, fun and glamour<br \/>\n&#8211; good supporting information on a website, with facts, figures and international comparisons<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s good to reflect that &#8216;Power must be taken, it is never given&#8217;. (William Powell)<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/_livWHnZDUo\">2013 London bicycle die-in<\/a> was good on music and drama but not so good on speeches.<br \/>\nThe 2014 POP <a href=\"http:\/\/pedalonparliament.org\/\">Pedal On Parliament<\/a> in Edinburgh was good in all respects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is good to have &#8211; scenic drama, with the route planned by a landscape architect &#8211; emotional music, planned by a musical director and extending along the whole route &#8211; a persuasive narrative, with speeches by children, activists and politicians &#8211; good co-opration from the police &#8211; jokes, fun and glamour &#8211; good supporting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,34,16,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}