{"id":1426,"date":"2007-12-09T23:17:57","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T22:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/09\/reading-and-leeds-festivals-part-with-carling\/"},"modified":"2007-12-09T23:17:57","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T22:17:57","slug":"reading-and-leeds-festivals-part-with-carling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/09\/reading-and-leeds-festivals-part-with-carling\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading and Leeds Festivals part with Carling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Reading<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Leeds Festivals<\/span> will no longer be known as the <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Carling Weekend<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Organisers <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Festival Republic<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/readingleeds-festival\/32741\">have confirmed<\/a> that they have parted ways with the beer giant, who has sponsored the twin festivals for nine years.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Carling<\/span> will also no longer be the official lager of the festivals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingfestival.com\">In a statement<\/a>, <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Festival Republic<\/span>&#8216;s <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Melvin Benn<\/span> said: &#8220;It was by mutual agreement that both parties felt the time was right to pursue new opportunities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The southern leg of the event now looks set to revert to its original name, <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Reading Festival<\/span>, originally used from the bash&#8217;s first year in 1971<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading and Leeds Festivals will no longer be known as the Carling Weekend. Organisers Festival Republic have confirmed that they have parted ways with the beer giant, who has sponsored the twin festivals for nine years. Carling will also no longer be the official lager of the festivals. In a statement, Festival Republic&#8216;s Melvin Benn said: &#8220;It was by mutual<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/09\/reading-and-leeds-festivals-part-with-carling\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reading and Leeds Festivals part with Carling&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-and-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}