{"id":135,"date":"2015-05-02T18:03:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T18:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woodhouseprizeband.org.uk\/?p=135"},"modified":"2015-05-02T18:03:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T18:03:44","slug":"open-rehearsal-a-great-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.woodhouseprizeband.org.uk\/index.php\/2015\/05\/02\/open-rehearsal-a-great-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Open rehearsal a great success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday 30th April,\u00a0we had an &#8216;open rehearsal&#8217; with the lovely ladies (and a few gents) at Handsworth Methodist Church. It&#8217;s the first time the band has done anything like this but hopefully we&#8217;ll be able to repeat it.<\/p>\n<p>Graham Cook, our longest standing member, spoke about the band&#8217;s long history dating back o 1853 adn his family&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodhouseprizeband.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/graham_methodist.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-137\" src=\"http:\/\/www.woodhouseprizeband.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/graham_methodist-165x300.jpg\" alt=\"Graham speaking at Handsworth Methodist Chrch\" width=\"165\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> long association with the band right through to the present day. David , our conductor, on his birthday of all days, taught the audience (and some band members) about the instruments we play and Ed &#8216;s mum even had a go at the trombone!<a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodhouseprizeband.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/eds_mum_methodist.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-136\" src=\"http:\/\/www.woodhouseprizeband.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/eds_mum_methodist-165x300.jpg\" alt=\"Eds mum having a go at trombone\" width=\"165\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were treated\u00a0to a lovely cup of tea and biscuits afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks very much everyone and we hope to\u00a0see you all again soon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first ever open rehearsal at Handsworth Methodist Church was a great success and a good (and educational) time was had by all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.woodhouseprizeband.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.woodhouseprizeband.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.woodhouseprizeband.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.woodhouseprizeband.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.woodhouseprizeband.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.woodhouseprizeband.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.woodhouseprizeband.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.woodhouseprizeband.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.woodhouseprizeband.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.woodhouseprizeband.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}