{"id":302919,"date":"2025-07-30T03:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T03:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/302919\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T03:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T03:52:12","slug":"fans-to-bid-farewell-to-ozzy-osbourne-in-birmingham-procession-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/302919\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans to bid farewell to Ozzy Osbourne in Birmingham procession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord Mayor of Birmingham, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/zafar-iqbal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zafar Iqbal<\/a>, said: \u201cOzzy was more than a music legend \u2013 he was a son of Birmingham. Having recently been awarded the Freedom of the City and following his celebrated appearance at the Back to the Beginning concert at Villa Park earlier this month, it was important to the city that we support a fitting, dignified tribute ahead of a private family funeral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Zafar Iqbal, said: \u201cOzzy was more than a music legend \u2013 he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[66815,855,984,19160,748,393,4502,4884,80722,19158,29260,12759,16,15,37880,111655],"class_list":{"0":"post-302919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-anthrax","9":"tag-birmingham","10":"tag-birmingham-city-council","11":"tag-black-sabbath","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-fans","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-kelly","17":"tag-metallica","18":"tag-ozzy-osbourne","19":"tag-sharon-osbourne","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-villa-park","23":"tag-zafar-iqbal"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114940159168919854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}