{"id":12690,"date":"2014-11-02T15:28:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T14:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12690"},"modified":"2014-11-02T15:28:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T14:28:04","slug":"prince-albert-monument-theme-day-landmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12690","title":{"rendered":"Prince Albert Memorial at 149"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14110206.jpg\" alt=\"Prince Albert Monument - Theme Day Landmark\" \/><br \/>\nThe Prince Albert memorial has been a landmark in Abingdon for 149 years.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14110205.jpg\" alt=\"Prince Albert Monument - Theme Day Landmark\" \/><br \/>\nHis foundation was put in 150 years ago, in 1864, three years after the good prince died at the age of 42, and left the queen and nation in mourning. The monument is 48 feet high and designed by John Gibbs of Oxford.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14110201.jpg\" alt=\"Prince Albert Monument - Theme Day Landmark\" \/><br \/>\nAlbert is cared for by the Albert Memorial (Abingdon) Trust, a charity whose aims are to maintain, preserve, and  keep in good repair the Albert Memorial situated in Albert Park, Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14110207.jpg\" alt=\"Prince Albert Monument - Theme Day Landmark\" \/><br \/>\nIt is the start of the month and the city daily photo community choose a theme and this month it is landmark. To view other landmarks <a href=\"http:\/\/cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com.au\/2014\/10\/november-2014-gallery-landmark.html\">visit here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prince Albert memorial has been a landmark in Abingdon for 149 years. His foundation was put in 150 years ago, in 1864, three years after the good prince died at the age of 42, and left the queen and nation in mourning. The monument is 48 feet high and designed by John Gibbs of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theme-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12690","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=12690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}