{"id":2,"date":"2011-02-05T16:06:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T16:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wearebedford.co.uk\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2011-05-11T15:58:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T15:58:15","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wearebedford.co.uk\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time a woman called Kayte made a flippant comment on her  facebook status about using empty shops as art venues in her hometown of  Bedford. Another woman, Erica, whom she\u2019d never met, saw this comment  and said Yes! They met, and it was good and they became \u2018We Are  Bedford\u2019. Together they put on the Castle Quay Weekender in March 2011, an arts festival in 7 empty shops, and a community group was born.<\/p>\n<p>We aim to become a community collective for people who want to make a  change in the town and to open up space for dialogue between the  community, commerce and the council.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-347\" href=\"http:\/\/wearebedford.co.uk\/?attachment_id=347\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-347\" title=\"Kayte and Erica\" src=\"http:\/\/wearebedford.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_44371-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wearebedford.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_44371-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wearebedford.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_44371-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wearebedford.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_44371.jpg 1642w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time a woman called Kayte made a flippant comment on her facebook status about using empty shops as art venues in her hometown of Bedford. Another woman, Erica, whom she\u2019d never met, saw this comment and said Yes! They met, and it was good and they became \u2018We Are Bedford\u2019. Together they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wearebedford.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wearebedford.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wearebedford.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wearebedford.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wearebedford.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wearebedford.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/wearebedford.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wearebedford.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}