{"id":15,"date":"2012-02-05T17:11:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T17:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halfcuttheatre.com\/Blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2012-02-05T17:13:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T17:13:39","slug":"15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halfcuttheatre.com\/Blog\/2012\/02\/05\/15\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek&#8217;s Half Cut Theatre Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/halfcuttheatre.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/hct_blog_header.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14\" title=\"hct_blog_header.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/halfcuttheatre.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/hct_blog_header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halfcuttheatre.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/hct_blog_header.jpg 940w, https:\/\/halfcuttheatre.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/hct_blog_header-300x63.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Derek first became fascinated by canals as a small boy while walking the towpath of the<br \/>\nGrand Union Canal near his grandparents&#8217; home at Blisworth in Northamptonshire.<br \/>\nThe interest stayed with him and, along with two school friends, he hired his first boat for a\u00a0holiday at the age of sixteen.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately bitten by the boating bug, he wanted a boat of his own. Thirty years, and a<br \/>\nnumber of hire boat holidays later, he and his wife had a boat built to their own design.<\/p>\n<p>Derek has been singing with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterboroughmvchoir.org.uk\/\">Peterborough Male Voice Choir<\/a> for over 35 years. He has also\u00a0performed with Westwood Musical Society in Peterborough.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in booking Derek to come and perform one of his One Man<br \/>\nShows for your group, club or association or for a specific event, please get in touch with him using the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.halfcuttheatre.com\/contact.html\">Contact Details<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In asking Derek to perform, you will also be supporting the necessary and worthwhile<br \/>\ncause of Canal Restoration as 50% of all his performance fees is donated to the:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fipt.org.uk\/\">Foxton Inclined Plane Trust<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek first became fascinated by canals as a small boy while walking the towpath of the Grand Union Canal near his grandparents&#8217; home at Blisworth in Northamptonshire. The interest stayed with him and, along with two school friends, he hired &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halfcuttheatre.com\/Blog\/2012\/02\/05\/15\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2cTyw-15","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halfcuttheatre.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halfcuttheatre.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halfcuttheatre.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halfcuttheatre.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halfcuttheatre.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/halfcuttheatre.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/halfcuttheatre.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halfcuttheatre.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halfcuttheatre.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halfcuttheatre.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}