{"id":4382,"date":"2015-12-31T10:22:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T10:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=4382"},"modified":"2015-12-31T10:50:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T10:50:17","slug":"the-ted-banks-appreciation-society-does-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=4382","title":{"rendered":"The Ted Banks Appreciation Society Does It Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Our quiz correspondent writes:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sunday 27th December saw the gripping conclusion to the 2015 Half Moon Quiz Series.\u00a0 As the clock ticked towards the allotted time the turnout looked poor, however a last-minute rush ensured ample competition between teams.\u00a0 The stand-in quizmaster, Jonathan, tested the competitors\u2019 knowledge on subjects as diverse as British sitcoms, WWII military operations and The Fimbles (yes, we had to \u2018Google&#8217; it too!).\u00a0 With The Moonies absent and The Ted Banks Appreciation Society fielding a largely reserve team due to other commitments, the competition really was all to play for.\u00a0 At the mid-way point several teams were neck and neck, however a late surge by TBAS ensured both a historic victory and an early start to Mr Banks\u2019 birthday celebrations.\u00a0 Thanks to Jonathan for his hard work in compiling and compering the quiz.\u00a0 The Blog looks forward to reporting on an equally exciting 2016 series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our quiz correspondent writes: Sunday 27th December saw the gripping conclusion to the 2015 Half Moon Quiz Series.\u00a0 As the clock ticked towards the allotted time the turnout looked poor, however a last-minute rush ensured ample competition between teams.\u00a0 The stand-in quizmaster, Jonathan, tested the competitors\u2019 knowledge on subjects as diverse as British sitcoms, WWII &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=4382\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Ted Banks Appreciation Society Does It Again!&#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-4382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-18G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382","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=4382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4384,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions\/4384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}