{"id":10542,"date":"2013-06-19T22:08:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T02:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=10542"},"modified":"2013-06-19T22:08:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T02:08:38","slug":"couldnt-make-the-june-gathering-of-the-george-formby-society-no-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/19\/couldnt-make-the-june-gathering-of-the-george-formby-society-no-worries\/","title":{"rendered":"Couldn&#8217;t make the June gathering of the George Formby Society? No worries!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t able to make it to the June <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgeformby.co.uk\/\">George Formby Society<\/a> convention in Blackpool. I suspect you weren&#8217;t able to be there either. (Well, most of you, anyway.) Luckily, <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/deebeewebdesign\">David Brindley<\/a> was there to film the two-day event, and he&#8217;s since cut together a couple of hours of highlights.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the strumming and merriment below!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/68226976?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/68226976\">George Formby Society Convention June 2013 &#8211; Part 1<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/deebeewebdesign\">DeeBee Web Design<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/68468589?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/68468589\">George Formby Convention June 2013 &#8211; Part 2<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/deebeewebdesign\">DeeBee Web Design<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/68646936?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/68646936\">George Formby Convention June 2013 &#8211; Part 3<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/deebeewebdesign\">DeeBee Web Design<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was in Blackpool for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2013\/03\/20\/my-first-public-performance-of-when-im-cleaning-windows\/\">the March GFS convention<\/a>, where I had an amazing time. I  have a vague notion to return for the November convention, which, temptingly, will be held one week after the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfc2013.org\/\">World Fantasy Convention<\/a> in Brighton. But since I don&#8217;t have the vacation time to spare and therefore would have to find somewhere to work the day job remotely during the week between,  it is most likely only that &#8230; a fantasy. <\/p>\n<p>You never know though. I&#8217;ll let you know how it all plays (or should that be strums?) out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t able to make it to the June George Formby Society convention in Blackpool. I suspect you weren&#8217;t able to be there either. (Well, most of you, anyway.) Luckily, David Brindley was there to film the two-day event, and he&#8217;s since cut together a couple of hours of highlights. Check out the strumming and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[190,175,10],"class_list":["post-10542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-george-formby","tag-ukulele","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}