{"id":19924,"date":"2018-03-06T12:02:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T12:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=19924"},"modified":"2018-03-06T13:32:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T13:32:16","slug":"people-says-eisteddfod-plans-havent-been-thought-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/people-says-eisteddfod-plans-havent-been-thought-through\/","title":{"rendered":"Eisteddfod plans have &#8216;not been thought through&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>People in Pontcanna have said Eisteddfod organisers have not considered the effects that the Welsh language festival will have on the local community.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The festival will take place from August 3-11 and camping will be hosted at Pontcanna Fields.<\/p>\n<p>The fields next to Bute Park in Cardiff city centre could be out of action for almost a month.<\/p>\n<p>People are worried\u00a0the event will put too much pressure on parks that are already busy.<\/p>\n<p>Edee Nacker runs a dog walking business and said the festival will cause her and other residents problems.<\/p>\n<p>She said the festival will cause overcrowding of neighbouring parks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll have to find alternative places to walk the dogs,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>The last time the National Eisteddfod came to Cardiff in 2008 it drew over 150,000 visitors, but the celebration left Pontcanna Fields out of action for more than 2 years.<\/p>\n<p>The Eisteddfod organisers have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>More to follow&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People in Pontcanna have said Eisteddfod organisers have not considered the effects that the Welsh language festival will have on the local community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744],"tags":[764,1289],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19924"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20010,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19924\/revisions\/20010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}