{"id":5775,"date":"2021-05-21T12:59:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T12:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=5775"},"modified":"2021-05-21T14:50:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T14:50:18","slug":"sign-the-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2021\/05\/21\/sign-the-petition\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign the petition!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the DCMS announcement that no more than 6 amateurs may sing indoors together, a petition has been launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/department-for-digital-culture-media-and-sport-let-choirs-start-singing-again-singing-will-rebuild-national-well-being\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/department-for-digital-culture-media-and-sport-let-choirs-start-singing-again-singing-will-rebuild-national-well-being', 'here');\">here<\/a>.  I was about the 850th to sign (polishes halo); it&#8217;s now at almost exactly 20,000 signatures and I&#8217;d expect it to get to 30,000 or not far short of that. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/getsinging-e1621601839269.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5777\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/getsinging-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"getsinging\" width=\"150\" height=\"84\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5777\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watching the names of the latest signatories scroll by, I recognise quite a few, whether people I sing with (that&#8217;s you, Jane, you, Kieran and you, Dorette) or well-known figures.  Either I&#8217;ve spent too much time doing this, or I know an awful lot of singers, or maybe the ones I know are more likely than average to protest in this way.<\/p>\n<p>So there are more than a few who are protesting at this restriction, imposed late and without detailed justification.  A warning in advance, with some reasoning and science, would have made it much more palatable. I doubt that tens of thousands of signatures will make the DCMS go back on its current position, but they might do well to reflect that most of us will have a vote in the next general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the DCMS announcement that no more than 6 amateurs may sing indoors together, a petition has been launched here. I was about the 850th to sign (polishes halo); it&#8217;s now at almost exactly 20,000 signatures and I&#8217;d expect it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2021\/05\/21\/sign-the-petition\/\">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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775"}],"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=5775"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5786,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775\/revisions\/5786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}