{"id":372,"date":"2015-04-13T17:07:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T16:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.burnshowffclub.org\/howffblog\/?p=372"},"modified":"2015-04-13T17:13:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T16:13:07","slug":"blog-update-march-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.burnshowffclub.org\/howffblog\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"Blog Update March 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.burnshowffclub.org\/howffblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Winner-P6-P7-Music-Festival-Euan-Patterson.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Winner P6 -P7  Music Festival  Euan Patterson\" width=\"72\" height=\"52\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-378\" \/>Perform in Dumfries Report for web<br \/>\n<strong>Perform In Dumfries \u2013 Recitation in Scots Verse Competition <\/strong>was held in the Academy on 7th March 2015.<\/p>\n<p>As the Howff club are one of the  sponsors for &#8216;Perform in Dumfries&#8217;,  David Smith and I were asked to present prizes of a  trophy and a fine hard back copy of Burns&#8217; Kilmarnock  Edition.   The howff club actually sponsored the winners of the P6-P7 age group and I was delighted to present the winner&#8217;s prize to a young gentleman called <strong>Euan Paterson <\/strong>from Sanquhar who delighted us with a very animated version of &#8216;A lament for a lost dinner ticket&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I must say it was nice to present a prize that,  didn&#8217;t require a password, didn&#8217;t require the purchase of an extended warranty agreement, was sensibly priced and came with a lifetime guarantee! <\/p>\n<p>All the kids that performed were  most entertaining and importantly seemed to enjoy what they were doing!   A very pleasant morning!<\/p>\n<p>John Clark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perform in Dumfries Report for web Perform In Dumfries \u2013 Recitation in Scots Verse Competition was held in the Academy on 7th March 2015. As the Howff club are one of the sponsors for &#8216;Perform in Dumfries&#8217;, David Smith and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burnshowffclub.org\/howffblog\/?p=372\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.burnshowffclub.org\/howffblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.burnshowffclub.org\/howffblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.burnshowffclub.org\/howffblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.burnshowffclub.org\/howffblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.burnshowffclub.org\/howffblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.burnshowffclub.org\/howffblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"http:\/\/www.burnshowffclub.org\/howffblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.burnshowffclub.org\/howffblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.burnshowffclub.org\/howffblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.burnshowffclub.org\/howffblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}