{"id":5286,"date":"2023-12-17T22:38:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T22:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/?p=5286"},"modified":"2023-12-17T22:38:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T22:38:57","slug":"christmas-melee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/?p=5286","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Melee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 2023 Christmas Melee was held today at the club. The weather was dull but the rain held off and the event attracted 52 members, a record for a melee at Monkstone. The traditional mulled wine and mince pies were on provided by the Club during the competition which was played in a friendly atmosphere and plenty of Christmas spirit, or mulled wine.<\/p>\n<p>After 2 rounds there were 11 players on 2 wins &#8211; who would be able to get the 3rd win that is usually necessary to win the competition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the event only 5 players managed to achieve the 3 wins and the results (which were later amended slightly after further scrutiny without affecting the result) were announced confirming a win for Francis Ryan with Roger Griffin and Claude Le Razavet hot on his heels.<\/p>\n<p>Well played to all the competitors and best wishes for Christmas and the New Year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5289\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Winner-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Winner-scaled.jpg 1887w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Winner-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Winner-755x1024.jpg 755w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Winner-768x1042.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Winner-1132x1536.jpg 1132w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Winner-1509x2048.jpg 1509w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>President Mike Jones presents the trophy to Francis Ryan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>FULL RESULTS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5288\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Results.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"689\" height=\"951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Results.jpg 689w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Results-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2023 Christmas Melee was held today at the club. The weather was dull but the rain held off and the event attracted 52 members, a record for a melee at Monkstone. The traditional mulled wine and mince pies were on provided by the Club<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competition"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5291,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286\/revisions\/5291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}