{"id":3196,"date":"2014-05-27T16:48:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T16:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=3196"},"modified":"2014-05-27T16:48:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T16:48:55","slug":"defeat-snatched-from-the-jaws-of-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=3196","title":{"rendered":"Defeat, snatched from the jaws of victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Mark Tucker reports:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sunday saw the eagerly awaited latest fixture in the 2014 Half Moon Quiz Series. \u00a0Turnout was good with, we suspect, many hoping to witness a historic third successive victory by The Ted Banks Appreciation Society. \u00a0The questions, posed by landlord Andrew, were as varied as they were challenging. \u00a0The defending champions battled heroically and at the half-time point were romping away with a convincing one point lead.<\/p>\n<p>Despite an encyclopedic knowledge of the boroughs of New York and the facial peculiarities of Caroline Quentin, the champions put in a poor second half performance and, at the final whistle, a four-point victory went instead to The Moonies. \u00a0A spokesperson for The Ted Banks Appreciation Society said &#8220;It&#8217;s a huge disappointment for us all &#8211; you build yourself up to it and then to fall at the final hurdle is a massive blow. \u00a0We&#8217;ll be back stronger, leaner and fitter for the next fixture though &#8211; those Moonies better watch out!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks must go to all at the Half Moon for organising the prestigious event which raised a tidy sum of money for the King Arthur&#8217;s Camps International trip to Tanzania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Tucker reports: Sunday saw the eagerly awaited latest fixture in the 2014 Half Moon Quiz Series. \u00a0Turnout was good with, we suspect, many hoping to witness a historic third successive victory by The Ted Banks Appreciation Society. \u00a0The questions, posed by landlord Andrew, were as varied as they were challenging. \u00a0The defending champions battled &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=3196\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Defeat, snatched from the jaws of victory&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-Py","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3198,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions\/3198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}