{"id":1642,"date":"2015-11-20T14:20:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T14:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birtwistles.com\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2015-11-20T14:24:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T14:24:18","slug":"race-to-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birtwistles.com\/news\/race-to-the-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy band \u2018Race the Horizon\u2019 race to Irlam for special one off gig."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After recently switching on the Christmas lights in Rusholme, band members Kris Evans, Craig Worsley and Jay Kontzle<b> <\/b>one of the country\u2019s top up and coming boy bands\u00a0\u2018Race the Horizon\u2019 popped into our offices to sing Happy Birthday to a very shocked and happy Carol Bullen <i>(Payroll Manager).<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Our Managing Director Glenn Eastwood with the help of the band\u2019s manager Alan Gray secretly arranged this surprise visit.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Race the Horizon\u2019 <i>(formerly named The Mend)<\/i> were finalists on Britain\u2019s Got Talent in 2012 and have been together for seven years. They were defeated in the Britain\u2019s Got Talent final by cute dancing dog Pudsey after they were chosen as the show\u2019s first wild card act.<\/p>\n<p>The band finished off this whirlwind stop by signing autographs for some of our very excited office staff. We\u2019d like to thank everyone involved in making this happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After recently switching on the Christmas lights in Rusholme, band members Kris Evans, Craig Worsley and Jay Kontzle one of the country\u2019s top up and coming boy bands\u00a0\u2018Race the Horizon\u2019 popped into our offices to sing Happy Birthday to a very shocked and happy Carol Bullen (Payroll Manager). Our Managing Director Glenn Eastwood with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birtwistles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birtwistles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birtwistles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birtwistles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birtwistles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/birtwistles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birtwistles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birtwistles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birtwistles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birtwistles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}