{"id":10927,"date":"2018-08-09T16:22:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T16:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=10927"},"modified":"2018-08-09T16:22:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T16:22:41","slug":"has-the-edinburgh-festival-fringe-become-too-commercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=10927","title":{"rendered":"Has the Edinburgh Festival Fringe become too commercial?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"57.8459119497\">\n<p>Critics say that one of the world&#8217;s biggest arts festivals is becoming too commercial &#8211; and too expensive to participate in.<\/p>\n<p>Today, thousands of performing artists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/news\/2017\/08\/ethiopian-circus-act-steals-show-edinburgh-fringe-festival-170812122123694.html\">show every year at Edinburgh Fringe<\/a>, up from a few acts when it started over 70 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Neave Barker reports from the Scottish capital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say that one of the world&#8217;s biggest arts festivals is becoming too commercial &#8211; and too expensive to participate in. Today, thousands of performing artists show every year at Edinburgh Fringe, up from a few acts when it started over 70 years ago. \u00a0 Al Jazeera&#8217;s Neave Barker reports from the Scottish capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}