{"id":53913,"date":"2015-02-13T16:46:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T16:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f936ddce1bee46579e21c9578e85783d"},"modified":"2015-02-13T16:46:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T16:46:11","slug":"news-story-foreign-office-twitter-qa-on-winter-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=53913","title":{"rendered":"News story: Foreign Office Twitter Q&amp;A on winter sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>On Friday 20 February the Foreign Office\u2019s Consular Assistance Team will hold a live Twitter Q&amp;A on all things winter sports related.<\/p>\n<p>The Q&amp;A will take place between 3pm to 4pm (GMT), and we are delighted to have an expert panel on board to help us. The panel includes:<\/p>\n<p>The Ski Club of Great Britain<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beth Begg, winter sports campaign manager<\/li>\n<li>Jonny Cassidy, winter sports holidays manager <\/li>\n<li>Dr Craig McLean, winter sports health specialist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Travel Association <abbr title=\"Association of British Travel Agents\">ABTA<\/abbr><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Daisy Parker, winter sports campaign manager<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ellis Brigham Mountain Sports<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Mark Brigham, Managing Director and expert on winter sports equipment<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Christopher Shannon, snowboarding equipment manager<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So if you\u2019re planning on hitting the slopes this season then this is the perfect opportunity to quiz our expert panel on anything from which equipment you\u2019ll need and what your insurance needs to cover, to how best to stay safe while on and off the piste.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>Tweet your question to <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fcotravel\">@FCOTravel<\/a> and use the hashtag #AskWinterSports.<br \/>\nQuestions can be submitted in advance using the hashtag.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Foreign Office along with representatives from ABTA, the Ski Club of Great Britain and Ellis Brigham Mountain Sports will be on hand to answer your questions on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}