{"id":29199,"date":"2018-12-10T21:30:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T21:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=29199"},"modified":"2018-12-10T21:30:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T21:30:20","slug":"the-truth-behind-busking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/the-truth-behind-busking\/","title":{"rendered":"The truth behind busking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Long hours without a break, hundreds of spectators and the uncertainty of not knowing the earnings of the day- are those the difficulties behind busking?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of street entertainers perform in the heart of London on a daily basis. However, do we really know the truth behind busking? The Voice of London decided to interview some of the city&#8217;s street performers to gain insight into the world of busking.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The truth behind busking\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2EKNOeseQro?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Words: Raquel Pacheco<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Video: Raquel Pacheco<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long hours without a break, hundreds of spectators and the uncertainty of not knowing the earnings of the day- are those the difficulties behind busking? Thousands of street entertainers perform in the heart of London&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":29215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}