{"id":4309,"date":"2017-06-24T12:56:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T11:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/?page_id=4309"},"modified":"2017-06-24T12:56:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T11:56:58","slug":"john-holland","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/people\/distinctions\/hall-of-fame\/john-holland\/","title":{"rendered":"John Holland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4285\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/JohnHolland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"204\" \/>John Holland was born in 1950 in Burnley, Lancashire.<\/p>\n<p>He worked as a purchaser and office Manager for over 20 years, and then became a computer programmer and eventually a full time professional bridge player.<\/p>\n<p>He represented England on the Open team in 2006 and 2008 but it was in Senior Bridge he made his mark.<\/p>\n<p>He was on the winning team in the D\u2019Orsi Bowl in 2009, the World Senior teams (the Rand Cup) in 2010, and the Senior European Championships in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4286\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/JohnHolland2-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/JohnHolland2-300x266.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/JohnHolland2.jpg 379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In addition to his three Gold medals he won a bronze medal in the Rand Cup in 2014 and a bronze in the Open Teams of the European Open Championships in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>John married Michelle Brunner in 2008 and has won every major championship in England.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/person?qryid=14336\">John Holland&#8217;s Playing Records<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Holland was born in 1950 in Burnley, Lancashire. He worked as a purchaser and office Manager for over 20 years, and then became a computer programmer and eventually a full time professional bridge player. He represented England on the Open team in 2006 and 2008 but it was in Senior Bridge he made his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":1885,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4309","page","type-page","status-publish"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4311,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4309\/revisions\/4311"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}