{"id":86842,"date":"2017-11-30T09:49:36","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T09:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=e05f984495dc48ce65b0efc4580a46ad"},"modified":"2017-11-30T09:49:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T09:49:36","slug":"news-story-celebrate-your-shortlisted-2021-uk-city-of-culture-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=86842","title":{"rendered":"News story: Celebrate your shortlisted 2021 UK City of Culture City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>On the evening of 7 December, the 2021 UK City of Culture will be revealed. The winning city will be selected from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/five-towns-and-cities-shortlisted-for-uk-city-of-culture-2021\">shortlist of 5 UK cities<\/a> comprised of Coventry, Paisley, Stoke-on-Trent, Sunderland and Swansea.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"how-to-get-involved\">How to get involved<\/h2>\n<p>In the run up to the winner being announced, we\u2019ll be shining a spotlight on each of these cities in turn through our social media channels on the following days:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Friday 1 December: #Coventry<\/li>\n<li>Monday 4 December: #Paisley<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday 5 December: #Sunderland<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday 6 December: #StokeonTrent<\/li>\n<li>Thursday 7 December: #Swansea<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can also show your support and get involved in celebrating what you love about each of these cities on these days on your social media channels by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Following DCMS on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DCMS\">Twitter<\/a>, <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dcmsgovuk\/\">Instagram<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dcmsgovuk\/\">Facebook<\/a> to follow and share our content.<\/li>\n<li>Sharing your messages of support for your favourite shortlisted city on their day.<\/li>\n<li>Posting images and videos about your favourite places to visit and enjoy in these cities.<\/li>\n<li>Sharing your stories and facts about what makes each shortlisted city unique.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure you include your city as a hashtag alongside the #CityofCulture2021 hashtag to join the conversation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"about-the-uk-city-of-culture\">About the UK City of Culture<\/h2>\n<p>The UK City of Culture is a designation given to a city in the United Kingdom for a period of one year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/derry-londonderry-named-uk-city-of-culture-2013--2\">Derry-Londonderry<\/a> was the first winner in 2013, followed Hull, which is the current title holder for 2017. <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hull2017.co.uk\/\">Find out more about Hull 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Show your support for the 5 shortlisted cities before the winner is revealed on 7 December.<\/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\/86842"}],"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=86842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}