{"id":6726,"date":"2021-06-25T11:02:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T11:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=6726"},"modified":"2021-06-25T11:02:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T11:02:51","slug":"wtfwincanton-town-festival-to-go-ahead-despite-attempted-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=6726","title":{"rendered":"WTF:Wincanton Town Festival to go ahead despite attempted ban."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You couldn\u2019t make it up. This Saturday 26 June is the Wincanton Town Festival,<\/strong> an arty party for everyone in the beautiful Grounds of Greening the Earth Gallery (Formerly Clementina\u2019s) in the High Street. From 12 noon until 9pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event is supported and part funded by the pompous-sounding Wincanton Regeneration Board. Tongue in cheek, the organisers decided to market the event as WTF: Wincanton Town Festival.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the last minute, after all the participants \u00a0had been booked and all the budget allocated, a self-righteous, self-important, and probably overpaid, bureaucrat on the board made the decision to cancel funding of the event. The reason was an objection to the acronym WTF. Did she think it stood for something other than \u201cWincanton Town Festival\u201d? \u201cWales Triumph at Football\u201d, perhaps? \u201cWelcome Transgender folk\u201d? \u201cWhisky Tasting Fantasia\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With 48 hours to go, the organisers appealed higher up the food chain. To everyone\u2019s relief, common sense prevailed, and the funding was reinstated. Not sure the regeneration board\u2019s sense of humour has, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What the organisers say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWTF: Wincanton Town Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Wincanton Town Festival mARkeT aims to be more than just a market. It aims to be a full body experience!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This one-off event is set in and around the grounds of a truly captivating 17th century manor house located in the centre of Wincanton, the Greening the Earth Gallery (formerly Clementina\u2019s).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This historic venue will play host to a wide variety of \u2018experiences\u2019 that are sure to stimulate all the senses! Artists from all disciplines will play, display, demonstrate and sell their special talents in and around this unique and picturesque setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Should be fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday 26 June \u2013 12noon- 9pm. Live music. Art. Food. Nature.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You couldn\u2019t make it up. This Saturday 26 June is the Wincanton Town Festival, an arty party for everyone in the beautiful Grounds of Greening the Earth Gallery (Formerly Clementina\u2019s) in the High Street. From 12 noon until 9pm The event is supported and part funded by the pompous-sounding Wincanton Regeneration Board. Tongue in cheek, … Continue reading “WTF:Wincanton Town Festival to go ahead despite attempted ban.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-1Ku","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6728,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726\/revisions\/6728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}