{"id":13262,"date":"2017-01-12T16:22:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T15:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=13262"},"modified":"2017-01-12T16:22:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T15:22:33","slug":"alex-blair%e2%80%99s-local-history-talks-return-to-ballymoney-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2017\/01\/alex-blair%e2%80%99s-local-history-talks-return-to-ballymoney-town-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Blair\u2019s local history talks return to Ballymoney Town Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<h1>Local historian Mr S. Alex Blair makes a welcome return to Ballymoney Town Hall on Wednesday 25<sup>th<\/sup> January with his spring series of local history talks.<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/press7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13263\" title=\"press\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/press7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a>This first talk will explore the life of Lord Macartney of Lisanoure, Loughgiel. In his life of achievement, Lord Macartney met and talked with notables such as Catherine the Great, The Empress of Russia and the Great Khan of China.<\/p>\n<p>He was one of the most illustrious British diplomats of his day and his life ensures to be a great talking point.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Blair will also lead talks on different topics on Wednesday 22<sup>nd<\/sup> February and Wednesday 22<sup>nd<\/sup> March.<\/p>\n<p>The talks begin at 8pm and cost \u00a32 to attend.<\/p>\n<p>For further information please call the Town Hall on 028 2766 0230 or contact Elaine Gaston, Cultural Services Development Manager on 028 2076 2225.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local historian Mr S. Alex Blair makes a welcome return to Ballymoney Town Hall on Wednesday 25th January with his spring series of local history talks. This first talk will explore the life of Lord Macartney of Lisanoure, Loughgiel. In his life of achievement, Lord Macartney met and talked with notables such as Catherine the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2017\/01\/alex-blair%e2%80%99s-local-history-talks-return-to-ballymoney-town-hall\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13264,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13262\/revisions\/13264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}