{"id":5810,"date":"2012-05-05T00:31:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T04:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=5810"},"modified":"2022-03-17T12:59:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T16:59:52","slug":"may-revelries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=5810","title":{"rendered":"May Revelries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RevelsAudubon1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5816\" title=\"RevelsAudubon\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RevelsAudubon1.jpg\" alt=\"RevelsAudubon\" width=\"435\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RevelsAudubon1.jpg 725w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RevelsAudubon1-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unlike the Winter Revels, the <a title=\"May Revels\" href=\"http:\/\/revelsdc.org\/events-calendar.html#may5?utm_source=May+2012+News+and+Notes+-+May+Revels%2C+Auditions%2C+SunFest+and+more%21&amp;utm_campaign=may-enews-2012&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May Revels<\/a> is always held outdoors, and I recall the days when, on the first Sunday in May, Brandywine Street here in Washington DC was closed to traffic, decked with garlands of flowers, and temporarily transformed into a festive Olde Village. Nowadays the May Revels is frequently a component of <a title=\"Flower Mart\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allhallowsguild.org\/fm\/come.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Cathedral\u2019s annual Flower Mart<\/a>, and, although of smaller scale, is still a lovely opportunity to watch a mummers\u2019 play, sing, and dance around the Maypole. (And you can also visit the Flower Mart, whose featured country this year is Jamaica.)<\/p>\n<p>This sketch is from a May Revels that took place at the National Audubon Society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CakeChocCurls2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5811\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" title=\"CakeChocCurls2\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CakeChocCurls2.png\" alt=\"CakeChocCurls2\" width=\"125\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a>Jacqui<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CakeDaisies.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5812\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" title=\"CakeDaisies\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CakeDaisies.png\" alt=\"CakeDaisies\" width=\"125\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a>Aunt Francie<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CakeBerries21.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5813\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" title=\"CakeBerries2\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CakeBerries21.png\" alt=\"CakeBerries2\" width=\"125\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a>Eric<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike the Winter Revels, the May Revels is always held outdoors, and I recall the days when, on the first Sunday in May, Brandywine Street here in Washington DC was closed to traffic, decked with garlands of flowers, and temporarily transformed into a festive Olde Village. Nowadays the May Revels is frequently a component of<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=5810\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[47,23,17,72,3],"class_list":["post-5810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketchbook","tag-dc","tag-festival","tag-penink","tag-spring","tag-watercolor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5810"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9296,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810\/revisions\/9296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}