{"id":1152,"date":"2010-05-07T10:03:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T09:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2010-05-07T10:03:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T09:03:46","slug":"medieval-may-day-holywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2010\/05\/medieval-may-day-holywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Medieval May Day Holywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Medieval May Day 2010 in Holywood was a fantastic day out for the whole family.<\/em> <em><br \/>\nSome 18,000 people attended the event that was organised by North Down Borough Council in partnership with Holywood and District Community Council.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em> <em><br \/>\nVisitors were treated to lots of top-class entertainment including jesters, acrobats and fighting knights in the medieval arena. \u00a0There was also \u00a0maypole dancing and the crowning of Linzi Sinton as the May Queen. <\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1158\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1158\" style=\"width: 448px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Holywood-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1158 \" title=\"Holywood 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Holywood-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crowds and Stalls at Holywood Medieval May Day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1157\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1157\" style=\"width: 448px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Holywood2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1157 \" title=\"Holywood2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Holywood2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dancing round the Maypole at Holywood Medieval May Day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1159\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1159\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Ella-Dougal-dances-at-the-childrens-interactive-dancing-with-Jump-Jiggle-and-Jive-at-the-Holywood-Medieval-May-Day-Holywood-County-Down-Monday-3rd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1159\" title=\"Ella Dougal dances at the childrens interactive dancing with Jump Jiggle and Jive at the Holywood Medieval May Day Holywood County Down Monday 3rd\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Ella-Dougal-dances-at-the-childrens-interactive-dancing-with-Jump-Jiggle-and-Jive-at-the-Holywood-Medieval-May-Day-Holywood-County-Down-Monday-3rd.jpg\" alt=\"Ella Dougal dances at the childrens interactive dancing with Jump Jiggle and Jive at the Holywood Medieval May Day Holywood County Down Monday 3rd\" width=\"299\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ella Dougal dances at the childrens interactive dancing with Jump Jiggle and Jive at the Holywood Medieval May Day Holywood County Down Monday 3rd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1160\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1160\" style=\"width: 448px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Valerie-Cobain-Chair-of-Holywood-and-District-Community-Council-May-Queen-Linzi-Sinton-Mayor-of-North-Down-Councillor-Tony-Hill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1160\" title=\"Valerie Cobain Chair of Holywood and District Community Council May Queen Linzi Sinton Mayor of North Down Councillor Tony Hill\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Valerie-Cobain-Chair-of-Holywood-and-District-Community-Council-May-Queen-Linzi-Sinton-Mayor-of-North-Down-Councillor-Tony-Hill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valerie Cobain Chair of Holywood and District Community Council May Queen Linzi Sinton Mayor of North Down Councillor Tony Hill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medieval May Day 2010 in Holywood was a fantastic day out for the whole family. Some 18,000 people attended the event that was organised by North Down Borough Council in partnership with Holywood and District Community Council. Visitors were treated to lots of top-class entertainment including jesters, acrobats and fighting knights in the medieval arena. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2010\/05\/medieval-may-day-holywood\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[333,5,331,332,330,305,38,11,10,25,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}