{"id":12383,"date":"2014-09-23T23:10:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T22:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12383"},"modified":"2014-09-23T23:10:42","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T22:10:42","slug":"john-e-a-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12383","title":{"rendered":"John E &#8211; a tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John E passed away last week. He often sent me pieces to put on the blog, and left comments, and encouragement.<\/p>\n<p>Rob emailed me suggesting a tribute to John on the blog. Other people knew John much better but Rob said when prompted <em>&#8220;The things I associate with John are his devotion to his family &#8211; his wife, children &#038; grand-children; his religious faith and his work for St Michael&#8217;s Church; his pride in his Welsh Heritage; his love of music and his singing with the Wantage Male Voice Choir &#038; a music-group for people living in his neighbourhood; his beloved allotment; his enthusiasm for travel; and his determination to have a go at everything that life has to offer, even over the last dozen years when he has had to dodge cancer&#8217;s bullets.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The last piece John E did for the blog was on New Years day 2014. The Boundary Walk had been cancelled because of the floods. Here is what he sent &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14010101.jpg\" alt=\"Christian Aid Walk\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The Christian Aid Walk happened this morning despite the Weather. Here they are at Drayton Church Hall for a soggy break. If this doesn\u2019t deserve a sponsorship I don\u2019t know what does!<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14010102.jpg\" alt=\"Christian Aid Walk\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John E passed away last week. He often sent me pieces to put on the blog, and left comments, and encouragement. Rob emailed me suggesting a tribute to John on the blog. Other people knew John much better but Rob said when prompted &#8220;The things I associate with John are his devotion to his family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12383","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=12383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}