{"id":3905,"date":"2015-11-24T23:24:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T23:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=3905"},"modified":"2016-07-08T17:02:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T17:02:06","slug":"being-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2015\/11\/24\/being-dropped\/","title":{"rendered":"being dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I pencilled in a couple of Cathedral weekends in 2016 with a choir I do such things with, only to find that I&#8217;m not invited on them.  I won&#8217;t discuss the reasons in detail here (they are to do with my perceived unavailability to sing) but rather the gap that the absence of this choir creates for me.  It&#8217;s not just the performances that I will miss, but the people.  While they are not such close friends that I have contact with them outside the choir &#8211; apart from social media chit-chat with some &#8211; I do count a number of them among my wider circle of friends and would be sorry not to meet them again.<\/p>\n<p>Choirs may have the benefit of allowing you to join a social group, but there is the downside of losing that group if you leave the choir.  Bristol Choral Society has one remedy for this which is organised walks several times a year, open to both present and past members (the latter form a large part of those who take part).  It may not be the end for me and this other choir just yet; I&#8217;m still available to fill gaps, and as one of the weekends in 2016 is local I intend to be a part of the congregation at at least one service.<\/p>\n<p>[July 2016: looks as if it may not be the end for me after all. As the situation with this choir has changed quite a lot I have deleted some comments.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I pencilled in a couple of Cathedral weekends in 2016 with a choir I do such things with, only to find that I&#8217;m not invited on them. I won&#8217;t discuss the reasons in detail here (they are to do with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2015\/11\/24\/being-dropped\/\">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":[8],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905"}],"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=3905"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4183,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions\/4183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}