{"id":9379,"date":"2014-07-07T00:07:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T00:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9379"},"modified":"2014-07-07T05:42:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T05:42:23","slug":"great-north-run-million-opening-ceremony-offers-10000-free-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/great-north-run-million-opening-ceremony-offers-10000-free-tickets","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGreat-North-Run-Million-Opening-Ceremony\u201d offers 10,000 free tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-GB\">The world&#8217;s second largest half-marathon, &#8216;Bupa Great North Run&#8217;, takes place every year in September, between Newcastle and South Shield. All of North East will be celebrating the event this year for it&#8217;s going to be the first running event to reach its millionth finish anywhere in our world. It&#8217;s being planned for the Quayside this year, on 4<sup>th<\/sup> September. The IAAF will be awarding the event for achieving this milestone.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">Brendan Foster, Chairman of Nova International, said 10,000 free tickets to the opening ceremony will be offered by Nova International in partnership with The Journal. This ceremony is a weekend long <a title=\"Great North Run Million Opening Ceremony, free tickets\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thejournal.co.uk\/news\/north-east-news\/win-one-10000-free-tickets-7361754\" target=\"_blank\">celebration<\/a>, as curtain raiser to participation in the North East sports events, that precedes the &#8216;Great-North-Run&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">Anyone who has previously participated in the &#8216;Great North Run&#8217; during its 33-year history will be given a free ticket, on first come, first served basis. Anyone who ever completed the run can apply for a free ticket. The tickets would be distributed through the &#8216;Great North Run&#8217; website. They just have to apply before 25<sup>th<\/sup> July, entering their first and last names, along with the year they ran. Past participants of the run who already bought a ticket can get the money refunded. Past runners, participating or not, are requested to contribute experiences and memories of the half-marathon. As part of the celebrations are included mass choreography, giant screen film projection onto The Sage Gateshead and other happenings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s second largest half-marathon, &#8216;Bupa Great North Run&#8217;, takes place every year in September, between Newcastle and South Shield. All of North East will be celebrating the event this year for it&#8217;s going to be the first running event to reach its millionth finish anywhere in our world. It&#8217;s being planned for the Quayside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379","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=9379"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9385,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379\/revisions\/9385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}