{"id":310227,"date":"2025-08-01T21:13:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/310227\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T21:13:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:13:17","slug":"frank-mitchell-from-pride-to-the-twelfth-no-one-loves-a-parade-more-than-the-people-of-ni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/310227\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Mitchell: From Pride to the Twelfth, no one loves a parade more than the people of NI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Belfast Pride\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4c68fa6c-ce43-4495-a64f-f818ebe0a833.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Belfast Pride<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Why do so many people here love parading? I know we are only amateurs when compared to Rio, New Orleans, Moscow and so on, but per head of population we do much more than our fair share of walking in formation, often behind some form of musical accompaniment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There\u2019s nearly always a parade being planned or one just finishing. There are so many here we have rules and regulations about where they can take place and who is not allowed to be offended, disturbed, disrupted or annoyed. The vast majority pass off without major issue, but most lead to road closures, diversions and general irritation for those who are neither interested in nor aware of what is being either celebrated or protested against.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belfast Pride Why do so many people here love parading? I know we are only amateurs when compared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[105219,113427,1144,6413,94225,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-310227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-belfast-pride","9":"tag-frank-mitchell","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-orange-order","12":"tag-the-twelfth","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114955577424684691","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}