{"id":2975,"date":"2024-10-26T16:21:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T15:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forummediatestsite.co.uk\/natc\/?p=2975"},"modified":"2025-07-24T12:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T11:12:25","slug":"events-and-days-out-test-post-1-watercress-fefestival-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forummediatestsite.co.uk\/natc-staging\/events-and-days-out-test-post-1-watercress-fefestival-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Watercress Festival &#8211; Sunday 17th May 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-center\">Every year on the third Sunday in May the streets of this Georgian town are closed to traffic to transform the town into a family-friendly <strong>FREE<\/strong>\u00a0festival.\u00a0 (*parking charges apply).\u00a0 The festival opens with a cavalcade at 10:00 but traders may open at 09:30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-center\">From street markets, food &amp; drink stalls, cookery demonstrations with renown world class chefs, the Hampshire Farmers Market, a\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;Kids Zone&#8221; featuring Circus Skills, there really is something for everyone.\u00a0For many the highlight of the day is Watercress Eating Championship\u00a0which takes place at 15:00 on the main stage &#8211; a must see event hosted by our very own redoubtable Paul Rees keeping the participants in order and the crowd in stitches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-center\"><strong>The festival opens at 10:00 and closes at 16:00, with the streets of New Alresford being returned to normal within a few hours.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2026 festival will be 17th May 2026. Click<a href=\"https:\/\/www.watercressfestival.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> HERE<\/a> for more information<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year on the third Sunday in May the streets of this Georgian town are closed to traffic to transform the town into a family-friendly FREE\u00a0festival.\u00a0 (*parking charges apply).\u00a0 The festival opens with a cavalcade at 10:00 but traders may open at 09:30. From street markets, food &amp; drink stalls, cookery demonstrations with renown world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-2975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-and-days-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forummediatestsite.co.uk\/natc-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forummediatestsite.co.uk\/natc-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forummediatestsite.co.uk\/natc-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forummediatestsite.co.uk\/natc-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forummediatestsite.co.uk\/natc-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/forummediatestsite.co.uk\/natc-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4991,"href":"https:\/\/forummediatestsite.co.uk\/natc-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions\/4991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forummediatestsite.co.uk\/natc-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forummediatestsite.co.uk\/natc-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forummediatestsite.co.uk\/natc-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forummediatestsite.co.uk\/natc-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forummediatestsite.co.uk\/natc-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}