{"id":81,"date":"2022-09-25T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tessabaker.space\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2022-10-10T17:36:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T17:36:16","slug":"london-bridge-sheep-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tessabaker.space\/blog\/2022\/09\/25\/london-bridge-sheep-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"London Bridge Sheep Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So this is an actual thing: once a year, in the busiest part of London, The Worshipful Company of Woolmen (yes, really) drive sheep over London Bridge. It&#8217;s apparently part of a historic tradition and represents the right of the common man to do business. Or something like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" data-id=\"73\" src=\"https:\/\/tessabaker.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_4389-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tessabaker.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_4389-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/tessabaker.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_4389-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/tessabaker.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_4389-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/tessabaker.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_4389-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/tessabaker.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_4389-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/tessabaker.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_4389-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" data-id=\"74\" src=\"https:\/\/tessabaker.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_4399-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tessabaker.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_4399-scaled.jpeg 1920w, https:\/\/tessabaker.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_4399-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/tessabaker.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_4399-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/tessabaker.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_4399-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/tessabaker.space\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_4399-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s totally bonkers: cue large numbers of people gawping, much crowding, sheep-shearing demos, and sheep-themed goods galore. Sheep&#8217;s milk vodka got the thumbs-up from me, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about it <a href=\"https:\/\/sheepdrive.london\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sheepdrive.london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this is an actual thing: once a year, in the busiest part of London, The Worshipful Company of Woolmen (yes, really) drive sheep over London Bridge. It&#8217;s apparently part of a historic tradition and represents the right of the common man to do business. Or something like that. It&#8217;s totally bonkers: cue large numbers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-science","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tessabaker.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tessabaker.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tessabaker.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tessabaker.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tessabaker.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tessabaker.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/tessabaker.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tessabaker.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tessabaker.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tessabaker.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tessabaker.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}