{"id":11722,"date":"2014-06-21T21:21:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T20:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11722"},"modified":"2014-06-21T21:21:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T20:21:16","slug":"new-mayor-of-ock-street-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11722","title":{"rendered":"New Mayor of Ock Street Elected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14062131.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of Ock Street\" \/><br \/>\nMr Harry Knight was elected the Mayor of Ock Street this afternoon. The election result was announced by Mr Ewart Hemmings, President of the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers. The Mayor of Abingdon, Angela Lawrence, was there to present Harry with the sword and chalice of office. Angela joined in with the dancing when everybody had a go on the Market Place, and showed that she was a good dancer herself.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14062132.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of Ock Street\" \/><br \/>\nMr Harry Knight said it was a great honour to follow Stuart Jackson, and Roger Cox, his predecessors, both who were there. Roger Cox, who has been Mayor of Ock Street from 2007-2014, was the first to congratulate the victor Harry. The Mayor of Ock Street also becomes the Squire of the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14062129.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of Ock Street\" \/><br \/>\nThere followed the traditional chairing of the new Mayor up and down Ock Street.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14062130.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of Ock Street\" \/><br \/>\nThe ballot took place at The Brewery Tap where Ock Street Ale was on tap &#8211; from Loose Cannon.<br \/>\n<object width=\"450\" height=\"253\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sArAC2_ow2k?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sArAC2_ow2k?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nThe day itself saw Morris dancing around the town. The youtube video above shows &#8216;Princess Royal&#8217; one of the Abingdon Dances, performed by the Abingdon Morris Dancers for centuries, and again today.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14062122.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of Ock Street\" \/><br \/>\nThere were five visited teams including the Armaleggan, a Border Morris side, who rehearse in Cumnor Village Hall, on the old Berkshire Borders.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14062102.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of Ock Street\" \/><br \/>\nAlso visiting town today were the Foxy Rangers from Didcot, in South Oxfordshire. They were raising money for Chanel, a child who needs special equipment to get a decent quality of life. One of those Foxy Rangers was chosen to be danced round in &#8216;Maid of The Mill&#8217;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14062103a.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of Ock Street\" \/><br \/>\nAfter which every passing Morris Dancer kissed her on the cheek &#8211; some more than once. The Armaleggan kissing got very smutty.<\/p>\n<p>More Pictures on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.728111150586777.1073741840.454845414580020&#038;type=1\">Abingdon Blog Facebook Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Harry Knight was elected the Mayor of Ock Street this afternoon. The election result was announced by Mr Ewart Hemmings, President of the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers. The Mayor of Abingdon, Angela Lawrence, was there to present Harry with the sword and chalice of office. Angela joined in with the dancing when everybody had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancing","category-traditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11722","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=11722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}