{"id":137,"date":"2004-07-16T00:23:30","date_gmt":"2004-07-15T23:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=137"},"modified":"2009-10-09T17:21:04","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T16:21:04","slug":"london_weirdos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2004\/07\/16\/london_weirdos.php","title":{"rendered":"London weirdos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London attracts weirdos in a big way.  I try and hang around the tourist spots a few times a month since there are often very entertaining things happening.  Usually this is in the form of <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.devco.net\/street_performers\">Street Performers<\/a> or other people doing things for money.<br \/>\nFor many months now I kept bumping into one specific guy that always hang around Piccadilly and areas but never had a camera with me to capture him.  Tonight I did and finally got some shots of him.  He started off standing with a board with the words &#8220;Odd Erection&#8221; printed on it in many different languages, with a weird picture.  Eventually he started wearing a tshirt with the same on.  Thesedays you will often find him talking to tourists who obviously cannot help asking what the story is.  I too asked him what is going on and he told me he just has nothing better to do, other people claim he told them he is a art student.  Regardless, he has been a constant London peculiarity now for 8 or so months.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/devlin.korandel.pl\/gallery\/form\/bamshee\/source\/04.htm\">Here<\/a> he is with his old card board, he also got a mention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yankeefog.com\/london\/archives\/000074.html\">here<\/a> and on some other places.<br \/>\nClick these thumbnails for my shots of him tonight<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/images\/DSC_2978.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/images\/DSC_2978.thumb.jpg\" border=0><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/images\/DSC_2976.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/images\/DSC_2976.thumb.jpg\" border=0><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London attracts weirdos in a big way. I try and hang around the tourist spots a few times a month since there are often very entertaining things happening. Usually this is in the form of Street Performers or other people doing things for money. For many months now I kept bumping into one specific guy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}