{"id":308,"date":"2009-03-19T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.wpdude.com\/test\/?p=308"},"modified":"2009-03-19T15:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T15:26:00","slug":"why-is-brighton-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/03\/why-is-brighton-weird\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Brighton Weird?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314921621112791986\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 252px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 365px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_8vF1TTyV5ww\/ScJlDgN4o7I\/AAAAAAAABaQ\/DHvuyhCLn6E\/s400\/brighton12.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">I choose to live in the UK&#8217;s weird alternative capital &#8211; Brighton.<\/span><\/strong> <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>I love it and thought it was time for a little local Brighton blog content. We have everything from aikido to yoga (no zoos). I got thinking the other day, &#8220;But what made it a mecca of the weird and wonderful?&#8221; A pub argument soon ensued and I decided to hold a online poll to decide once and for all! Of course it could just decide which groups the most popular and has the biggest e-mail distribution list&#8230;.but just for fun here goes:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which of the following institutions has had the biggest impact on making Brighton the alternative capital it is today?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American Express<br \/>The Brighton Festival<br \/>The Brighton Natural Health Centre (Peter Blackaby, Laurie Booth, Charlie Morrisey, etc)<br \/>Brighton University<br \/>Comedia<br \/>Brighton Buddhist Centre\/ Evolution<br \/>The Brighton Dole Office<br \/>Drug Dealers<br \/>Gay Pride<br \/>Brighton Judo Club\/Kicks\/other martial arts clubs<br \/>Infinity Foods<br \/>The Level and the Levellers<br \/>Natural Bodies (Gary Carter and friends), etc<br \/>Brighton Peace and Environment Centre<br \/>The Brighton Piers<br \/>The Prince Reagent (bloke and pub)<br \/>Theatre Royal<br \/>University of Sussex<br \/>The Zap, Concorde II and Honeyclub (Fat Boy Slim and nightclub friends)<\/p>\n<p>Other suggestions welcome.<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m also aware that socio-economic-political factors have also had a huge influence and not just institutions. Being quite literally &#8220;at the end of the (train) line&#8221; is a major one statistically apparently!<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;ll write and in depth piece on the winner for some free publicity and buy them a cake \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">Brighton So What:<\/span> Vote now to support your choice! (Right hand side of blog)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I choose to live in the UK&#8217;s weird alternative capital &#8211; Brighton. I love it and thought it was time for a little local Brighton blog content. We have everything from aikido to yoga (no zoos). I got thinking the other day, &#8220;But what made it a mecca of the weird and wonderful?&#8221; A pub argument soon ensued and I decided to hold a online poll to decide once and for all! Of course it could just decide which groups the most popular and has the biggest e-mail distribution list&#8230;.but just for fun here goes: Which of the following institutions <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9xvDN-4Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}