{"id":74766,"date":"2013-07-01T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=74766"},"modified":"2023-05-02T15:49:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T14:49:46","slug":"stars-and-stripes-in-loftus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=74766","title":{"rendered":"Stars and Stripes in Loftus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/michelle-robinson-2-a-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74679\" width=\"732\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/michelle-robinson-2-a-1.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/michelle-robinson-2-a-1-300x183.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/michelle-robinson-2-a-1-491x300.jpg 491w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/michelle-robinson-2-a-1-150x92.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/michelle-robinson-2-a-1-400x244.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>We asked of this image: \u201dDo you know the occasion, why the band was in Loftus and why were they parading with the flag of America?\u201d&nbsp;Julie Riddiough tells us: \u201dI\u2019m wondering if this is the Blues and Royals Juvenile Jazz Band that then became Loftus Green Jackets,&nbsp;I was a member when&nbsp;I was about 9\/10 years old.\u201d Karen Marsay has advised: \u201dThis is not the Blues and Royals Juvenile Jazz Band, The Green Jackets were the first band in Loftus started up when I was 12 or 13 years old, in 1980\u2019s the Green Jackets split up and the Blues and Royals formed which I joined after leaving the Green Jackets\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of Michelle Robinson, thanks to Julie Riddiough for a possible solution and to Karen Marsay for the full details.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>We asked of this image: \u201dDo you know the occasion, why the band was in Loftus and why were they parading with the flag of America?\u201d&nbsp;Julie Riddiough tells us: \u201dI\u2019m wondering if this is the Blues and Royals Juvenile Jazz Band that then became Loftus Green Jackets,&nbsp;I was a member when&nbsp;I was about 9\/10 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choir-and-bands","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74769,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74766\/revisions\/74769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}