{"id":700317,"date":"2026-07-19T18:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T18:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/700317\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T18:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T18:15:09","slug":"in-pictures-edinburgh-festival-carnival-fills-the-city-with-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/700317\/","title":{"rendered":"In pictures: Edinburgh Festival Carnival fills the city with colour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Edinburgh&#8217;s summer festival season got underway this weekend with the Festival Carnival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 800 people took part in the multi cultural event which is organised by the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This years parade had a revised route, bypassing Princes Street following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ce3e351ldwro\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fire at a former department store<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 100 concerts taking place over the next week include a celebration of jazz from the Netherlands and a tribute to Edinburgh pianist Brian Kellock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edinburgh&#8217;s summer festival season got underway this weekend with the Festival Carnival. More than 800 people took part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-700317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}