{"id":2847,"date":"2009-10-11T14:56:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T14:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=2847"},"modified":"2009-10-11T14:56:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T14:56:31","slug":"mass-protest-against-greenwich-park-equestrian-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/mass-protest-against-greenwich-park-equestrian-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass protest against Greenwich Park equestrian event"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2848\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2848\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/11\/mass-protest-against-greenwich-park-equestrian-event\/greenwich_park_equestrian_event_protest\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2848\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2848\" title=\"greenwich_park_equestrian_event_protest\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/greenwich_park_equestrian_event_protest.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters shout SAVE GREENWICH PARK on 11 October 2009\" width=\"775\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/greenwich_park_equestrian_event_protest.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/greenwich_park_equestrian_event_protest-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/greenwich_park_equestrian_event_protest-768x257.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/greenwich_park_equestrian_event_protest-624x209.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters shout SAVE GREENWICH PARK on 11 October 2009<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We like to be first with the news. This photo was taken half an hour ago and we estimate there were over a thousand people in Greenwich Park on a wet afternoon, most of them horrified at the prospect of the damage the Olympic Equestrian Event would do to the Park. Those pounding hoofs and crowds of people would damage the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/rescue-garden-archaeology-before-the-olympic-equestrian-event-in-greenwich\/\"> Le Notre Parterre<\/a> and endanger those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/07\/greenwich-park-restoration-after-2012-equestrian-and-modern-pentathlon-events\/\">wonderful old chestnut trees <\/a>which do so much to feed Chinese chestnut pickers each autumn. See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/07\/greenwich-park-restoration-after-2012-equestrian-and-modern-pentathlon-events\/\">Restoration after 2012 Greenwich Olympic Equestrian Event<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/16\/london-2012-olympic-village-landscape\/\">Olympic Village 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<object width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=71377\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=34b35d8f5b&amp;photo_id=4001926026\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=71377\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<object width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=71377\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=fb9435c4db&amp;photo_id=4001235697\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=71377\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We like to be first with the news. This photo was taken half an hour ago and we estimate there were over a thousand people in Greenwich Park on a wet afternoon, most of them horrified at the prospect of the damage the Olympic Equestrian Event would do to the Park. Those pounding hoofs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,21,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847"}],"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=2847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}