{"id":4624,"date":"2017-10-02T13:50:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T13:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connaughtclub.ticketu.co.uk\/index.php\/the-grand-ball-club-out-in-force\/"},"modified":"2021-01-06T11:12:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T11:12:15","slug":"the-grand-ball-club-out-in-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connaughtclub.org\/index.php\/the-grand-ball-club-out-in-force\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grand Ball: Club Out in Force!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.connaughtclub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22049974_10155608751729303_708861561411397647_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3848\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Grand Ball at Freemasons\u2019 Hall, London, was a lavish white tie<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">affair organised by the United Grand Lodge of England.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write up by\u00a0Bro. G. A. Junior<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Masonic event of the year (after the CC 300 Ball\u2026of course) was finally here \u2013 the Grand Ball \u2013 celebrating 300 years of organised Freemasonry on Saturday 30th September 2017 at\u00a0Freemasons\u2019 Hall in Great Queen Street. We were welcomed with a Champagne reception, the drinks, food and good vibes flowed all night long until 3am until the iconic survivors photo at 3am.\u00a0Many lodge rooms were\u00a0transformed in to various entertainment space: in each of the rooms, a rock band, silent disco, Gin bar, casino, skeletrix, and (my favorite) the miniature golf. The list goes on. The highlight of the night for me was the Grand Temple, which had a raised dance floor, and we danced the night away with a big band playing in the background.<\/p>\n<p>Brethren from across the whole world had traveled to attend and I met brothers from Brazil, Malta and even Barnet.\u00a0The night was amazing and a lot of fun, all of the CC members and partners had a jolly good time.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to UGLE for arranging a special night\u2026 I look forward to saying in many years\u2019 time \u2013 \u201cI was there\u201d!<\/p>\n<p>Now roll on another 300 years, I say!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classic-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connaughtclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connaughtclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connaughtclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connaughtclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connaughtclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/connaughtclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5168,"href":"https:\/\/connaughtclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions\/5168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connaughtclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connaughtclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connaughtclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}