{"id":1165,"date":"2024-09-12T09:54:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T09:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chathammensclub.org\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2024-09-12T10:01:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T10:01:06","slug":"a-whale-of-a-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chathammensclub.org\/?p=1165","title":{"rendered":"A WHALE OF A PROJECT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/chathammensclub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Whale.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chathammensclub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Whale.jpg 640w, https:\/\/chathammensclub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Whale-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chathammensclub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Whale-228x102.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For the first time in the Chatham Mens Club history, we opted to sponsor a piece of artwork in the Chatham Merchants Association Art in the Park fundraiser.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We were assigned a very talented artist, Bradford Allen, who created the piece shown here.&nbsp; It was on display in Kate Gould Park along with 75 other creations. The public had the opportunity to bid on the entries from late June thru the middle of August.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>At the close of bidding Mr. Allen\u2019s creation commanded $3,500, sixth highest amount in the program.&nbsp; The proceeds are evenly split between the artist and the Chatham Merchants Association.&nbsp; The Chatham Mens Club was the recipient of &nbsp;awareness of the Club as we were identified as the sponsor on the piece itself and via the online bidding site which received many hits during the seven week period.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Chatham Mens Club is proud of its community outreach activities and we look forward to being part of Art in the Park for many years to come.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in the Chatham Mens Club history, we opted to sponsor a piece of artwork in the Chatham Merchants Association Art in the Park fundraiser. We were assigned a very talented artist, Bradford Allen, who created the piece shown here.&nbsp; It was on display in Kate Gould Park along with 75 other creations. The public had the opportunity to bid on the entries from late June thru the middle of August.&nbsp; At&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chathammensclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chathammensclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chathammensclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chathammensclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chathammensclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chathammensclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/chathammensclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chathammensclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chathammensclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chathammensclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}