{"id":10067,"date":"2013-11-06T23:25:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T22:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=10067"},"modified":"2013-11-06T23:25:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T22:25:05","slug":"the-monument-that-was-decided-upon-incorporated-a-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=10067","title":{"rendered":"Relatives were canvassed in 1920 about a fitting memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-PfxO3--8hCQ\/UnrSZZGFMqI\/AAAAAAAAPmY\/pdmtbHNVvWw\/s1600\/13110602.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-PfxO3--8hCQ\/UnrSZZGFMqI\/AAAAAAAAPmY\/pdmtbHNVvWw\/s1600\/13110602.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn 1920, the relatives&nbsp; who had lost loved ones in the Great War were canvassed by Abingdon Borough Council&#8217;s War Memorial Committee about a fitting memorial. The preferred option was a Statue of a Soldier with 100 votes, a cross got 62 votes, and a monument 31 votes.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-W2tHP-iFSLQ\/UnrYiz75RBI\/AAAAAAAAPmo\/sgWSS_w9-K0\/s1600\/13110603.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-W2tHP-iFSLQ\/UnrYiz75RBI\/AAAAAAAAPmo\/sgWSS_w9-K0\/s1600\/13110603.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe memorial that was decided upon does incorporate a soldier.<\/p>\n<p>On this wet Wednesday, before Remembrance Day, the Royal British Legion wreath remains from last year. <\/p>\n<p>Either side of the monument turf has been placed &#8211; for poppies and crosses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1920, the relatives&nbsp; who had lost loved ones in the Great War were canvassed by Abingdon Borough Council&#8217;s War Memorial Committee about a fitting memorial. The preferred option was a Statue of a Soldier with 100 votes, a cross got 62 votes, and a monument 31 votes. The memorial that was decided upon does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}