{"id":1263,"date":"2007-12-05T17:05:26","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T16:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2013-05-16T21:23:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T20:23:05","slug":"news-letter-5th-december-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/?p=1263","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter &#8211; December 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Society\u2019s Christmas Social was held on Tuesday December 4<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Members and their guests arrived to a sherry reception, which was followed by an excellent buffet provided by Jenny Aldridge Catering. Ken Price had provided a \u2018warm up\u2019 quiz at the beginning of the evening but, following the meal, moved to his \u2018magnum opus\u2019 \u2013 three rounds of most taxing questions to be answered by each table as a team. All entered into this demanding activity most enthusiastically and the eventual winners were the Chairman\u2019s team.\u00a0 Despite cries of \u2018fixed\u2019 and \u2018cheats\u2019, the quizmaster\u2019s decision was final and the team duly accepted their prize.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0At the end of a most enjoyable evening the Chairman, Joan Ryder, wished everyone a happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year and Vice Chair, Ray Porter, thanked all who had made the evening such a success, particularly Margaret Rorison for overall organisation, Joan Barwick for the raffle and Ken Price for his entertaining quiz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Society\u2019s Christmas Social was held on Tuesday December 4th.\u00a0 Members and their guests arrived to a sherry reception, which was followed by an excellent buffet provided by Jenny Aldridge Catering. Ken Price had provided a \u2018warm up\u2019 quiz at the beginning of the evening but, following the meal, moved to his \u2018magnum opus\u2019 \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-letters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}