{"id":1882,"date":"2012-12-09T18:39:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T01:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2012-12-09T18:39:03","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T01:39:03","slug":"holiday-extravaganza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/holiday-extravaganza\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Extravaganza!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Husband goes to the salon once a month to have a haircut and beard trim.\u00a0 The young woman who takes care of him is like a family member to us.\u00a0 She told DH that she was performing in a concert on Saturday, and he asked for information.\u00a0 Cindy has been a part of the Sweet Adelines for ages.\u00a0 She sings in the Melodeers Chorus, and they gave a performance in Lincolnshire at Stevenson High School.<\/p>\n<p>We left home about an hour and a half before the performance.\u00a0 We wanted to be sure to find the school in plenty of time, and not walk in late.\u00a0 It took us about an hour to get there via tollways.\u00a0 We walked in, and bought tickets, and were lucky to get two of the last few seats left.<\/p>\n<p>The auditorium was slow to fill, and the concert was delayed by about ten minutes.\u00a0 When they got started, we were absorbed in the performance and well entertained. Cindy was in the front row, smack in the center!\u00a0 Five quartets sang, dispersed among songs sung by the chorus, which boasts 150 members.\u00a0 The first half of the show featured popular Christmas tunes.\u00a0 The second half was mostly traditional carols.\u00a0 I was fascinated by the harmonies, chord progressions and arrangements, choreography and superb voices.<\/p>\n<p>It was a wonderful way to get into the Christmas season, and to support Cindy.\u00a0 I&#8217;m delighted to have had the chance to hear her sing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Husband goes to the salon once a month to have a haircut and beard trim.\u00a0 The young woman who takes care of him is like a family member to us.\u00a0 She told DH that she was performing in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/holiday-extravaganza\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1884,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions\/1884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}