{"id":3281,"date":"2008-04-29T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2026-04-29T14:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:23:15","slug":"st-albans-city-band-trophy-win-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/04\/29\/st-albans-city-band-trophy-win-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"St Albans City Band trophy win &#8211; 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>St Albans City Band took 3rd place in the 1st section of the London &amp; Southern Countie Areas contest in 2008. Pictured here are Stuart Garman (no longer the band&#8217;s conductor by this point) and Nicholas Garman with the best soloist prize. As of 2026, this is the highest place the band had &#8211; and indeed has &#8211; achieved in its history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"453\" height=\"604\" src=\"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-60.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-60.png 453w, https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-60-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Albans City Band took 3rd place in the 1st section of the London &amp; Southern Countie Areas contest in 2008. Pictured here are Stuart Garman (no longer the band&#8217;s conductor by this point) and Nicholas Garman with the best soloist prize. As of 2026, this is the highest place the band had &#8211; and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/04\/29\/st-albans-city-band-trophy-win-2008\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;St Albans City Band trophy win &#8211; 2008&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-60.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3283,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions\/3283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansband.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}