{"id":1817,"date":"2011-05-06T20:30:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T09:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unionsingers.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/06\/may-day-toast\/"},"modified":"2011-05-06T20:30:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T09:30:16","slug":"may-day-toast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.illawarraunionsingers.com.au\/?p=1817","title":{"rendered":"May Day toast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another good night out at the Hellenic Club. We did a great job, sang 4 songs: Lets Pretend (with the kazoos) which certainly got everybodys attention; Imagine (in 3 parts, quite tricky, well done!); Solidarity; and The Internationale, featuring first verse and chorus sung solo in Serbian by Zlatko. Very appropriate to emphasize the global nature of the day, and I think much appreciated by the international guests from Chile and Palestine. <\/p>\n<p>These photos were taken after we&#8217;d warmed up, and while we had something to eat. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.illawarraunionsingers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110507-063104.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.illawarraunionsingers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110507-063104.jpg?w=715\" alt=\"20110507-063104.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.illawarraunionsingers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110507-063139.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.illawarraunionsingers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110507-063139.jpg?w=715\" alt=\"20110507-063139.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another good night out at the Hellenic Club. We did a great job, sang 4 songs: Lets Pretend (with the kazoos) which certainly got everybodys attention; Imagine (in 3 parts, quite tricky, well done!); Solidarity; and The Internationale, featuring first verse and chorus sung solo in Serbian by Zlatko. Very appropriate to emphasize the global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gigs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24,"url":"https:\/\/www.illawarraunionsingers.com.au\/?p=24","url_meta":{"origin":1817,"position":0},"title":"Looking great at the Folk Club gig","author":"dreamthinkplay","date":"March 4, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"We were this Friday's \"mystery performers\". 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