{"id":12976,"date":"2016-09-19T00:19:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T00:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12976"},"modified":"2016-09-17T12:56:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T12:56:43","slug":"banbury-parkruns-second-birthday-has-beach-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/banbury-parkruns-second-birthday-has-beach-theme","title":{"rendered":"Banbury Parkrun\u2019s second birthday has beach theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A beach themed event marks the second birthday of Banbury&#8217;s Parkrun. What started off as a national movement in 2004 in London&#8217;s Bushy Park, has grown massively today to have over 350 parkruns hosted all over the country. The free event\u00a0 marking 2 years, on 24th September, is inviting the public to attend the anniversary dressed in a beach or Hawaiian theme, at Spiceball Park, starting from 8:30am.<br \/>\nThe event features speeches and before the run gets underway, there will be an awards ceremony, followed by refreshments. Michael Dobson, the event director, said the parkrun is not a race but people get points for crossing the finish line and also for volunteering here, with awards given for volunteers and the highest scorers. He added that they&#8217;ll have a bit of a party celebrating for another year. The parkrun has increased in popularity with now Bicester holding new parkruns, he pointed out. To know more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.banburyguardian.co.uk\/news\/surf-s-up-at-banbury-parkrun-s-birthday-1-7581324\">free event<\/a>, go to the website- parkrun.org.uk\/banbury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A beach themed event marks the second birthday of Banbury&#8217;s Parkrun. What started off as a national movement in 2004 in London&#8217;s Bushy Park, has grown massively today to have over 350 parkruns hosted all over the country. The free event\u00a0 marking 2 years, on 24th September, is inviting the public to attend the anniversary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freebies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12979,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12976\/revisions\/12979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}