{"id":1493,"date":"2012-03-23T19:46:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T19:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2014-08-26T22:28:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T22:28:47","slug":"a-citizenship-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2012\/03\/23\/a-citizenship-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"A citizenship ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently taken part in a ceremony to admit some 30 or so people to British citizenship. My role was to help lead in the singing of the National Anthem after they&#8217;d heard from one or two people from the local council (they managed to work in their slogan &#8216;Making Bath &#038; North East Somerset an even better place to live, work and visit&#8217;!)<\/p>\n<p>Some mood-setting music was played beforehand and along with the expected Elgar, Vaughan Williams etc. there was <i>Zadok the Priest<\/i> by Handel. Actually, this was the most appropriate piece for the occasion, because Handel was himself naturalised, though in those days it had to be done by Act of Parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently taken part in a ceremony to admit some 30 or so people to British citizenship. My role was to help lead in the singing of the National Anthem after they&#8217;d heard from one or two people from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2012\/03\/23\/a-citizenship-ceremony\/\">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":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[335,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2655,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/2655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}