{"id":128,"date":"2005-09-12T09:01:30","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T09:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/uncategorized\/southsea_kites\/"},"modified":"2005-09-12T09:01:30","modified_gmt":"2005-09-12T09:01:30","slug":"southsea_kites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/living-in-the-uk\/southsea_kites\/","title":{"rendered":"Southsea Kites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kites001\" title=\"Kites001\" src=\"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/kites001.jpg\" border=\"0\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Now that we&#8217;ve moved I&#8217;m really enjoying catching the ferry when I head across to Southsea, there&#8217;s something about seeing the city from the water that&#8217;s quite dramatic, although I doubt anyone else onboard thinks so, you have to show the same non-appreciative expression you do when sitting on the tube. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, some photos from the kite festival at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dotsandspaces\">flickr<\/a>. There were so many kites, all shapes and sizes. I had a look in some of the stalls and I see that kite flying isn&#8217;t what it use to be, its so technical, with kits costing hundreds. I suppose you could still sort yourself out something more modest in the meantime. BBC Norfolk of all places has a good site about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/norfolk\/your\/kids\/make_kite.shtml\">kites<\/a>, and there are more photos <a href=\"http:\/\/community.webshots.com\/album\/437186002wJcNPS\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aeolian.co.uk\/kites\/kites01\/portsmouth.html\">here<\/a> and much better shots than mine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/89518282@N00\/39230365\/\">here<\/a> &#8211; I think we must have been there the same day, the sky looks just the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that we&#8217;ve moved I&#8217;m really enjoying catching the ferry when I head across to Southsea, there&#8217;s something about seeing the city from the water that&#8217;s quite dramatic, although I doubt anyone else onboard thinks so, you have to show the same non-appreciative expression you do when sitting on the tube. Anyway, some photos from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-the-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}