{"id":415,"date":"2019-12-06T00:31:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T00:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site124.blogs.americavip.com\/?p=415"},"modified":"2021-02-01T12:22:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T12:22:09","slug":"edinburgh-international-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/en\/2019\/12\/06\/edinburgh-international-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh International Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/125\/files\/sites\/125\/2019\/12\/Festival.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-414\" src=\"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/125\/files\/sites\/125\/2019\/12\/Festival.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/125\/files\/sites\/125\/2019\/12\/Festival.jpg 700w, http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/125\/files\/sites\/125\/2019\/12\/Festival-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><b>Edinburgh International Festival (downtown Edinburgh)<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"> \u2013 held throughout the month of August, <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">the Edinburgh International Festival has been connecting audiences and artists for over sixty years. Founded in 1947, the Festival grew out of the rubble of the Second World War with the aim of providing &#8216;a platform for the flowering of the human spirit&#8217; by inviting the world\u2019s best artists and companies to perform, whatever their nationality. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The result of such efforts is an exhilarating mix of classical music, theatre, opera and dance from the world&#8217;s leading artists. Event venues include The Hub, Usher Hall, Festival Theatre Edinburgh, The Edinburgh Playhouse, King\u2019s Theatre, Roayl Lyceum Theatre, and The Queen\u2019s Hall. See the Festival\u2019s website for ticketing info and calendar of shows: www.eif.co.uk<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edinburgh International Festival (downtown Edinburgh) \u2013 held throughout the month of August, the Edinburgh International Festival has been connecting audiences and artists for over sixty years. Founded in 1947, the Festival grew out of the rubble of the Second World War with the aim of providing &#8216;a platform for the flowering of the human spirit&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,25,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-museums-monuments-other-sites","category-scotland-en","category-things-to-see-and-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.scotlandvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}