{"id":68,"date":"2008-07-18T10:10:35","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T15:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/2008\/07\/18\/the-giglio-and-the-band\/"},"modified":"2008-07-18T10:10:35","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T15:10:35","slug":"the-giglio-and-the-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/2008\/07\/18\/the-giglio-and-the-band\/","title":{"rendered":"The Giglio and the band"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hewins\/2678529171\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3010\/2678529171_492af0764b.jpg\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hewins\/2678529171\/\">The Giglio and the band<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/hewins\/\">hewins<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\n\tLast night, Hillary, Nina, and I went to the Giglio Feast in our neighborhood. This is an annual event that lasts about a week and has been going on in Brooklyn since about 1907. The main event is &#8216;the dancing of the giglio&#8217; and is pictured here. About 130 men lift this platform, which holds the tall tower, an older gentleman with a microphone and a band. They march it up and down Havemeyer street, performing a few special lifts wherein they may bounce or spin the platform. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giglio-usa.org\/\">Here is a site<\/a> that has information on the various feasts in the USA. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olmcfeast.com\/\">Here is a site<\/a> that is specific to the one here in Williamsburg. It has a long history.  A few men get the honor of being a &#8220;Capo,&#8221; which is a position of honor among the carriers. A Capo is in charge of a subgroup of lifters of the giglio. All I know is that you have to have been involved for many years to receive this honor.<\/p>\n<p>This is the kind of thing that reminds me that I live in a real neighborhood with history and community and it makes me feel good to be a Brooklynite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Giglio and the band, originally uploaded by hewins. Last night, Hillary, Nina, and I went to the Giglio Feast in our neighborhood. This is an annual event that lasts about a week and has been going on in Brooklyn since about 1907. The main event is &#8216;the dancing of the giglio&#8217; and is pictured &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/2008\/07\/18\/the-giglio-and-the-band\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Giglio and the band<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flickr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}