{"id":968,"date":"2011-05-23T19:12:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T03:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/?p=968"},"modified":"2018-09-10T22:09:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T06:09:50","slug":"get-your-brit-on-at-vandusen-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/get-your-brit-on-at-vandusen-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Get your Brit on &#8211; at VanDusen Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/BritFlagBrolly1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-971\" title=\"BritFlagBrolly\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/BritFlagBrolly1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was initially drawn to\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/vancouver.ca\/parks\/parks\/vandusen\/website\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">VanDusen Gardens<\/a> this rainy Victoria Day week-end through a friend, and fellow musician. He posted a concert on Facebook of the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/vabbs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Little Mountain Brass Band<\/a>&#8216;s forthcoming performance at Van Dusen Gardens, although the main event was the British Classic Car Show. Hosted by\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Western Driver<\/a>, the car shows draws classic auto enthusiasts and gawkers of many stripes from around Vancouver, BC, and several US states to the south.<\/p>\n<p>For $14, I got to hear a little bit of sweet band music and see more Morgans, Triumphs, Minis, Metropolitains, Bentleys, Rovers, and MGs as well as more brollys than I may ever need to see again. In fact, with the re-appearance of the rains, it gave me an added sense of Britishness to stiff-upper-lip it with the tweed set, hobnobbing with those who&#8217;d\u00a0prefer to debate shades of hunter green than, say, head to the beach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouverobserver.com\/localvocal\/2011\/05\/21\/get-your-brit-van-dusen-gardens\" target=\"_blank\">More pictures on Vancouver Observer site.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was initially drawn to\u00a0VanDusen Gardens this rainy Victoria Day week-end through a friend, and fellow musician. He posted a concert on Facebook of the\u00a0Little Mountain Brass Band&#8216;s forthcoming performance at Van Dusen Gardens, although the main event was the British Classic Car Show. Hosted by\u00a0Western Driver, the car shows draws classic auto enthusiasts and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29456,"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/29456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}