{"id":7655,"date":"2015-08-17T14:15:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/08\/17\/big-johns-birmingham-mela\/"},"modified":"2016-08-03T15:47:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T14:47:25","slug":"big-johns-birmingham-mela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/17\/big-johns-birmingham-mela\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Johns Birmingham Mela"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Event \u2018Bigger and Better than Ever\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/BigJohnsBirminghamMela-447x311.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"middle\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Thousands of people flocked to Birmingham\u2019s Cannon Hill Park to attend Big John\u2019s Birmingham Mela \u2013 an event which has been hailed as extremely successful.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Organisers have said over 50,000 people attend the multicultural event which hosted food, stalls, music and fun-fair rides. Artists performing at the event included Shide Boss, Zack Knight, Roach Killa, Hunterz, Jay Kadn, Sophie Virdee, Imran Khan and Kan D Man. Celebrities at the event included local lad, Lord Aleem with BBC Radio presenters Noreen Khan and Tommy Sandhu hosting.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Mela in its 15th year was bigger and better than ever with something for everyone to celebrate. The free annual event in Cannon Hill Park in the heart of Birmingham was truly an inclusive, open and diverse event, living up to its promise of being\u00a0fun for the whole family.<\/p>\n<p>The programme included stage performances of local, national and international artists, funfair rides, a sports area hosting traditional sports activities, including cricket, weightlifting and kabaddi, an Asian bazaar with clothing, jewellery, music<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Event \u2018Bigger and Better than Ever\u2019 &nbsp; &nbsp; Thousands of people flocked to Birmingham\u2019s Cannon Hill Park to attend Big John\u2019s Birmingham Mela \u2013 an event which has been hailed as extremely successful. &nbsp; &nbsp; Organisers have said over 50,000 people attend the multicultural event which hosted food, stalls, music and fun-fair rides. Artists performing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}