{"id":58,"date":"2026-04-10T16:56:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lastminutemusicians.com\/help\/?p=58"},"modified":"2026-04-10T16:56:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:56:30","slug":"how-far-in-advance-do-i-need-to-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lastminutemusicians.com\/help\/how-far-in-advance-do-i-need-to-book\/","title":{"rendered":"How far in advance do I need to book?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our most popular bands get booked up years in advance so it is always a good idea to book as far in advance as possible. However, it is sometimes possible to make a booking right up to the last minute!<\/p>\n<p>View our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lastminutemusicians.com\/articles\/band-booking-checklist.html\">Band Booking Checklist<\/a> for more tips on booking a live band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our most popular bands get booked up years in advance so it is always a good idea to book as far in advance as possible. However, it is sometimes possible to make a booking right up to the last minute! View our Band Booking Checklist for more tips on booking a live band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-customers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lastminutemusicians.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lastminutemusicians.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lastminutemusicians.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lastminutemusicians.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lastminutemusicians.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lastminutemusicians.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/www.lastminutemusicians.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lastminutemusicians.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lastminutemusicians.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lastminutemusicians.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}