{"id":2160,"date":"2013-06-28T20:55:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T19:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2013-07-29T19:14:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T18:14:22","slug":"union-j-lends-their-support-to-the-royal-british-legions-fund-raising-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/2160\/union-j-lends-their-support-to-the-royal-british-legions-fund-raising-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Union J lend their support to The Royal British Legion&#8217;s fund raising efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>X Factor boyband Union J showed their support for The Royal British Legion\u2019s new fund raising initiative recently by appearing in a promotions Video.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/06\/georgeshelly.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/06\/georgeshelly.png\" alt=\"george shelly unionj\" title=\"george shelly unionj\" width=\"590\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2161\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/06\/georgeshelly.png 590w, http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/06\/georgeshelly-300x171.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Sun reports that the boys starred in the comedy clip to launch \u2018Poppy Picnics\u2019, The Royal British Legion\u2019s newest summer fundraising initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s youngest member George Shelley, 19, said: \u201cMy brother is currently serving in the Royal Marines, so The Royal British Legion is a cause especially close to my heart. They\u2019re there for the entire armed forces community, both serving and ex-service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a great day shooting the video and a really fun Poppy Picnic with some of the families stationed at RAF Northolt where part of the video was shot. It was incredible hearing some of their stories. The work they do is amazing!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See the boyband in action in this video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YQgOekuR490\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I think they would all need a Hair cut if they were to sign up.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* largexfactor 336x280, created 11\/25\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"7071761240\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><br \/>\n<BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X Factor boyband Union J showed their support for The Royal British Legion\u2019s new fund raising initiative recently by appearing in a promotions Video. The Sun reports that the boys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-union-j","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/06\/georgeshelly.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions\/2188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}