{"id":56414,"date":"2009-12-05T13:35:02","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T13:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=56414"},"modified":"2017-04-20T16:57:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T15:57:15","slug":"wool-fair-market-place-loftus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=56414","title":{"rendered":"Wool Fair, Market Place, Loftus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56413\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Wool-Fair-at-Market-Place-Loftus-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1235\" height=\"844\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Wool-Fair-at-Market-Place-Loftus-1-1.jpg 1235w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Wool-Fair-at-Market-Place-Loftus-1-1-300x205.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Wool-Fair-at-Market-Place-Loftus-1-1-439x300.jpg 439w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Wool-Fair-at-Market-Place-Loftus-1-1-150x103.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Wool-Fair-at-Market-Place-Loftus-1-1-400x273.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1235px) 100vw, 1235px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Once an integral part of community life in Loftus (and under different names every rural village in England). This would have been \u2013 as well as the place to sell your wool \u2013 one of the hiring fairs which shaped a young man\u2019s life for the next 12 months. Now, with a brief revival in the 1980s, another attempt was made in 2013 with the intention to attempt the Fair annually. The Image Archive hopes the organisers are successful.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Once an integral part of community life in Loftus (and under different names every rural village in England). This would have been \u2013 as well as the place to sell your wool \u2013 one of the hiring fairs which shaped a young man\u2019s life for the next 12 months. Now, with a brief revival [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loftus-market-place","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56415,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56414\/revisions\/56415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}