{"id":5482,"date":"2021-02-23T15:09:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T15:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=5482"},"modified":"2022-01-18T10:08:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T10:08:33","slug":"chase-the-cheese","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/knowledge-base\/chase-the-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"Chase the cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">Featured in the Netflix series We Are the Champions, the Cooper\u2019s Hill <a href=\"https:\/\/theculturetrip.com\/europe\/united-kingdom\/england\/articles\/a-quick-guide-to-cheese-rolling-englands-strangest-sport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cheese-Rolling<\/a> and Wake is an annual event held near Gloucester. Participants race down the 200-yard-long hill after a nine-pound round of Double Gloucester cheese \u2013 another of Gloucestershire&#8217;s finest exports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">We\u2019re pretty sure we\u2019re the only county who can boast this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The event has been a staple of Gloucestershire\u2019s spring-time calendar since 1826. And the tradition continues to grow in popularity every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Racers flock from all over the world. From the US, to Australia and Japan. With one of the most recent wins coming from Canadian, Mark Kitt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In 2019, an impressive all-time record was set by Flo Early, who now boasts a total of four wins in the Women\u2019s Race and is the only women ever to hold this accolade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The event is not to be missed. There really is nothing quite like it \u2013 come along and see it for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 200-yard race down a local hill in which participants from all around the world compete to reach the bottom and win a round of Double Gloucester cheese! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":129000002229,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"1","footnotes":""},"schools":[],"campuses":[],"subject_area":[],"ht-kb-category":[368],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-5482","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ht_kb_category-prospectus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/5482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/5482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7348,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/5482\/revisions\/7348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"schools","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/schools?post=5482"},{"taxonomy":"campuses","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campuses?post=5482"},{"taxonomy":"subject_area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject_area?post=5482"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=5482"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=5482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}