{"id":2287,"date":"2010-10-01T19:32:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T01:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2010-10-01T19:32:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T01:32:57","slug":"arcadia-high-band-takes-top-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2010\/10\/01\/arcadia-high-band-takes-top-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Arcadia High Band Takes Top Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_1019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2288\" title=\"IMG_1019\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_1019-300x152.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"97\" \/><\/a>First-time participants Arcadia High School took the grand prize in the L.A. County Fair\u2019s 8th annual High School Band Competition, not only winning $5,000 but a spot in the 2012 Tournament of Roses Parade.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is very exciting. We\u2019ve spent several weeks getting ourselves organized,\u201d said Tom Landes, who directs the Arcadia band with Kevin Sherrill. \u201cThis is our first time here at the L.A. County Fair, so we didn\u2019t know what to expect.\u201d<br \/>\nTaking second place and $3,000 was Kaiser High School in Fontana. Diamond Rancho High School in Pomona received third place and $2,000.<br \/>\nJudges from the Tournament of Roses chose the champion. \u201c Arcadia\u2019s musicality was great, their precision was fantastic. And their marching was wonderful for the Rose Parade,\u201d said Alex Aghajanian of the TofR music committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First-time participants Arcadia High School took the grand prize in the L.A. County Fair\u2019s 8th annual High School Band Competition, not only winning $5,000 but a spot in the 2012 Tournament of Roses Parade. \u201cThis is very exciting. We\u2019ve spent several weeks getting ourselves organized,\u201d said Tom Landes, who directs the Arcadia band with Kevin&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funatthefair"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}