{"id":543623,"date":"2025-11-02T06:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T06:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/543623\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T06:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T06:33:09","slug":"does-stratford-really-have-what-it-takes-to-be-londons-next-major-tourist-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/543623\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Stratford really have what it takes to be London&#8217;s next major tourist destination?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We peruse the stretch, from swan pedalos, drifting on the water, which to be fair is probably more delightful in summer. And walk past artist Michael Landy\u2019s playful cockney rhyming slang installation. Later, at Sadler\u2019s Wells, we watch an extraordinary performance by Marc Brew, a ballerina who profoundly reinvented his art after being made paraplegic in a car accident, working in collaboration with choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (the genius behind Beyonce and Jay Z\u2019s Apeshit video). At times, Stratford\u2019s sleek minimalism and the sheer scale of its architecture feel alienating, and bleak \u2014 like LA without the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We peruse the stretch, from swan pedalos, drifting on the water, which to be fair is probably more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,10391,393,4884,257,174883,174882,16,15,42807],"class_list":{"0":"post-543623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-east-london","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-olympic-park","14":"tag-the-stratford","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-westfield"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115478712016911806","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543623","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=543623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}