{"id":11663,"date":"2014-06-12T23:31:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T22:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11663"},"modified":"2014-06-12T23:31:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T22:31:05","slug":"mayor-of-ock-street-ballot-papers-and-fire-brigade-strike-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11663","title":{"rendered":"Ock Street on a Thursday Evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14061205.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of Ock Street Ballot Papers\" \/><br \/>\nThe Election of the Mayor of Ock Street  will be on June 21st this year. Ballot Papers were being taken round this evening. It is earlier than usual to give people more warning, and also to avoid delivering ballot papers during the England v Uruguay game. <\/p>\n<p>Only people living along Ock Street and side streets get to vote in this election.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14061204.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of Ock Street Ballot Papers\" \/><br \/>\nIt will be a two way contest this year between Roger Cox, the current Mayor, and Harry Knight.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14061201.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of Ock Street Ballot Papers\" \/><br \/>\nThe number of Ock Street occupants entitled to vote has been reduced by the demolition of the Mayott House Old People&#8217;s Home.<\/p>\n<p>But by 2015 the new independent living quarters, built instead, will provide new electors.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14061203.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of Ock Street Ballot Papers\" \/><br \/>\nOn Ock Street today the Firemen were on strike over government changes to their pensions. As I gather it the government wants firemen to continue front line fire fighting until the age of 60.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14061206.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of Ock Street Ballot Papers\" \/><br \/>\nLarge clouds of  smoke were rising this evening. Not a strike breaker &#8211; just a large bonfire at St Amand Drive as viewed  from Meadowside off Ock Street<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Election of the Mayor of Ock Street will be on June 21st this year. Ballot Papers were being taken round this evening. It is earlier than usual to give people more warning, and also to avoid delivering ballot papers during the England v Uruguay game. Only people living along Ock Street and side streets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-strikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663","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=11663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}