{"id":1316,"date":"2016-12-14T16:31:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T16:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirtlingandupend.org\/wp\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2016-12-14T16:42:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T16:42:21","slug":"the-first-king-of-england-in-a-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirtlingandupend.co.uk\/?p=1316","title":{"rendered":"The First King of England.. in a Dress!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Dear Resident,<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/kirtlingandupend.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/CLive-king-of-england.jpg\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 225px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1,000 years ago, there was no place like England for a good story&#8230; because there was no place called England!<\/p>\n<p>This was a time of huge battles, because the Saxons and the Vikings hated each other. So when a Viking called Cnut tried to be the king of the Saxons too, the Saxons weren&#39;t happy.<\/p>\n<p>But when a stranger turns up at their door, a grumbly Saxon and his son Aethelred decide to let him in. Soon, they&#39;re all sharing stories about giants, gods, and magic &ndash; and discover some surprising secrets about each other&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u200bCan Vikings and Saxons be friends? Will Aethelred see his mother again? And just why is King Cnut dressed like&nbsp;<strong><em>that<\/em><\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>\u200bFind out in the tale of&nbsp;<strong><em>The First King of England&#8230; in a Dress<\/em><\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>\u200bA fun-packed family storytelling show including puppetry, music from a &quot;genuine&quot; electro-acoustic Anglo-Saxon lyre&#8230; and&nbsp;<strong><em>plenty<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;of joining in!<\/p>\n<p><strong>At kirtling Village Hall on Saturday, 14 January at 3pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tickets from the Red Lion, Kirtling and the Post Office, Cheveley.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Free for children 12 years and under<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Adults and 13+ &pound;5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u200bProduced by Snail Tales with support from: the Arts Council of England; ADEC; East Cambridgeshire District Council; the Diocese of Ely; Cambridge Live; Cambridgeshire Libraries; the Society for Storytelling; and The History Press.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Resident, 1,000 years ago, there was no place like England for a good story&#8230; because there was no place called England! This was a time of huge battles, because the Saxons and the Vikings hated each other. So when a Viking called Cnut tried to be the king of the Saxons too, the Saxons weren&#39;t happy. But when a&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirtlingandupend.co.uk\/?p=1316\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirtlingandupend.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirtlingandupend.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirtlingandupend.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirtlingandupend.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirtlingandupend.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirtlingandupend.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirtlingandupend.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirtlingandupend.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirtlingandupend.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}