{"id":142,"date":"2006-12-13T00:17:58","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T08:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=142"},"modified":"2013-02-07T17:55:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T01:55:13","slug":"oso-holiday-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/13\/oso-holiday-party\/","title":{"rendered":"OSO Holiday Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had the great fortune that two of our newest musicians, violists Jen Arnold and Leah Ilem, had the inspiration to put together a huge holiday extravaganza for us this year (please note that there were <strong><em>violists<\/em><\/strong> responsible the merriment). It&#8217;s been a long time since the symphony musicians have had a party like this, and it was a blast! Well over 50 people attended, and a great time was had by all. Many thanks to Steve and Beth Price for opening their home for the party.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/321047411\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/321047411_f5837e1818.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"the troublemakers\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAdam, Trevor, Linda, Leah and Jen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/321047056\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/321047056_509076acfb.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"karen, steve, aaron and paloma\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nKaren, Steve, Aaron and Paloma<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/321046976\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/321046976_8424223508.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"heather and me\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMe and my wife Heather<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had the great fortune that two of our newest musicians, violists Jen Arnold and Leah Ilem, had the inspiration to put together a huge holiday extravaganza for us this year (please note that there were violists responsible the merriment). It&#8217;s been a long time since the symphony musicians have had a party like this, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[3655,62,3660],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-news","tag-symphony","tag-viola"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-2i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":253,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/26\/violists-are-a-multi-talented-bunch\/","url_meta":{"origin":142,"position":0},"title":"violists are a multi-talented bunch","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Just caught this photo from the Baltimore Symphony musicians' website - enjoy! 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