{"id":11403,"date":"2014-05-07T22:56:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T21:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11403"},"modified":"2014-05-07T22:56:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T21:56:37","slug":"abingdon-mayor-making-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11403","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Mayor Making 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14050701.jpg\" alt=\" Abingdon Mayor Making\" \/><br \/>\nAngela Lawrence was elected as the Mayor of Abingdon this evening at a crowded Guildhall, and Helen Pighills was elected her Deputy.<\/p>\n<p>Angela is the first &#8220;Independent&#8221; to become Mayor of Abingdon since 1982 (when Brian Jones was Mayor). She said &#8220;<em>It is such a thrill and honour to be elected Mayor of our lovely town.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Samantha Bowring, the outgoing Mayor,  described the many and varied Abingdon people and societies she had met during her year as Mayor, and described Abingdon as a brilliant cool town.<\/p>\n<p>Four organisations and people received Mayors awards from the the outgoing Mayor:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Abingdon Youth Football Club<\/li>\n<li>Stephen Body who has been leading scouts for 50 years<\/li>\n<li>Eleanor Dangerfield of the Tithe Farm and Ladygrove Residents Association and Green Gym.<\/li>\n<li>Colin Galloway who cares for the town by litter picking and voluntary work with the Green Gym and Northmoor Trust.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Lawrence was elected as the Mayor of Abingdon this evening at a crowded Guildhall, and Helen Pighills was elected her Deputy. Angela is the first &#8220;Independent&#8221; to become Mayor of Abingdon since 1982 (when Brian Jones was Mayor). She said &#8220;It is such a thrill and honour to be elected Mayor of our lovely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mayor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403","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=11403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}