{"id":770,"date":"2012-06-29T06:33:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T05:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=770"},"modified":"2012-06-29T06:35:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T05:35:51","slug":"week-25-football-and-charity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=770","title":{"rendered":"Week 25: football and charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The week was marked by the European football championship and the Hogueras de San Juan, Alicante&#8217;s midsummer fiesta.<\/p>\n<p><strong>25_1<\/strong><br \/>\nLike last week, I start with a cycling image. This is the closest one comes to seeing a billboard on the mountain roads where I cycle on weekends:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/25_1.jpg\" alt=\"P1010582\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>25_2<\/strong><br \/>\nOn Tuesday night I went to one of the neighbourhood bars, 4 Estaciones, to watch Spain&#8217;s last group stage match, against Croatia. The requirement was simple; whoever won would progress to the quarterfinal while the loser would be out. Before the match, the bartender offers appropriate face paint to the patrons:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/25_2.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0511\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>25_3<\/strong><br \/>\nThe other bartender takes a (very short) break:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/25_3.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0507\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>25_4<\/strong><br \/>\nWatching football in a bar is very much a family affair in Spain:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/25_4.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0534\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>25_5<\/strong><br \/>\nIncredibly, not everyone was interested in the football:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/25_5.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0529\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>25_6<\/strong><br \/>\nThere is no smoking inside bars in Spain anymore, so at halftime the population outside the bar swells:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/25_6.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0522\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>25_7<\/strong><br \/>\nAfter a nervous match, Spain is finally ahead 1-0, and the free victory round is being lined up:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/25_7.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0537\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>25_8<\/strong><br \/>\nThe match has ended, and the bar erupts in celebration:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/25_8.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0545\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>25_9<\/strong><br \/>\nThe victory round is handed out:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/25_9.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0548\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>25_10<\/strong><br \/>\nLater in the week, I came across this scene in the centre. The giant Hogueras are being placed around the city, to be admired for a few days and burned at midnight on June 24th:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/25_10.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0557\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>25_11<\/strong><br \/>\nPutting the pieces together, a delicate operation:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/25_11.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0561\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>25_12<\/strong><br \/>\nA Hogueras tradition at our office is that various charities get to set up tables in our lobby and sell food, arts and crafts to support their good works:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/25_12.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0576\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>25_13<\/strong><br \/>\nThe ceramics lady:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/25_13.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0580\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>25_14<\/strong><br \/>\nThere were some guys selling stuff too, but thankfully most of the vendors were female:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/25_14.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0591\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>25_15<\/strong><br \/>\nThis lady makes lamps out of pieces of dead wood and discarded materials:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/25_15.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0595\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>25_16<\/strong><br \/>\nDoll lady:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/25_16.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0594\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>25_17<\/strong><br \/>\nFinally, an early Saturday morning picture. The bakery has just opened and is receiving a delivery. There are no customers yet:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/25_17.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0589\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Summer is well and truly here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The week was marked by the European football championship and the Hogueras de San Juan, Alicante&#8217;s midsummer fiesta. 25_1 Like last week, I start with a cycling image. This is the closest one comes to seeing a billboard on the mountain roads where I cycle on weekends: 25_2 On Tuesday night I went to one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":671,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/770\/revisions\/772"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}