{"id":10902,"date":"2018-08-31T15:49:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T20:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rnrachicago.org\/?p=10902"},"modified":"2018-08-31T15:49:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T20:49:55","slug":"friends-of-the-parks-2018-parks-ball-thursday-september-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/?p=10902","title":{"rendered":"Friends of the Parks&#8217; 2018 Parks Ball\u00a0&#8211; Thursday September 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10686\" src=\"https:\/\/rnrachicago.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-Parks-Ball.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"480\" \/>David Solzman&#8217;s \u00a0&#8220;Yin Yang&#8221; photo taken on the lagoon in Jackson Park is a fitting representation of \u00a0the Friends of the Parks&#8217; annual \u00a0gala.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friends of the Parks&#8217; 2018 Parks Ball\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Thursday, September 20\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>6pm &#8211; 9:30pm\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Friends of the Parks&#8217; <strong>Park Ball 2018,<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;A Black and White Party for the &#8216;White City&#8217;,&#8221;\u00a0will celebrate the 1893 World Columbian Exposition (nicknamed the White City for the color of the buildings in\u00a0the fairgrounds) in Jackson Park and the Midway.<\/p>\n<p>Join Friends of the Parks for a dinner and dancing cruise aboard the Odyssey, departing from Navy Pier near the Ferris Wheel (an attraction first introduced to the world at the Expo) with a tour to Jackson Park,\u00a0weather permitting. We promise it will be tons of fun!<\/p>\n<p>Funds raised will be used to support signature programs of Friends of the Parks, including environmental stewardship education for youth, park clean-up, and policy and advocacy work.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to <a href=\"https:\/\/fotp.org\/events-page\/parksball2018\/parksball2018registration\/\">BUY YOUR TICKETS<\/a> to the Parks Ball today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Solzman&#8217;s \u00a0&#8220;Yin Yang&#8221; photo taken on the lagoon in Jackson Park is a fitting representation of \u00a0the Friends of the Parks&#8217; annual \u00a0gala. Friends of the Parks&#8217; 2018 Parks Ball\u00a0 Thursday, September 20\u00a0 6pm &#8211; 9:30pm\u00a0 Friends of the Parks&#8217; Park Ball 2018,\u00a0&#8220;A Black and White Party for the &#8216;White City&#8217;,&#8221;\u00a0will celebrate the 1893 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}