{"id":13786,"date":"2015-04-18T01:01:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T00:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13786"},"modified":"2015-04-18T01:01:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T00:01:21","slug":"abingdon-on-thames-town-council-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13786","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15041707.jpg\" alt=\"Town Council Candidates\" \/><br \/>\nAs the sun goes down on the four year term of the current Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council there are some names I was suprised to see missing on the list of candidates for the next four years (Julie Mayhew-Archer, Lesley Legge, Alison Rooke, Iain Littlejohn):<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15041704.jpg\" alt=\"Town Council Candidates\" \/><br \/>\nStanding to serve the town for the 2015 to 2019 term are:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15041710.jpg\" alt=\"Town Council Candidates\" \/><br \/>\nThat makes 53 candidates going for the positions of 19 town councillors:<br \/>\n* 18 Conservative<br \/>\n* 4 Green<br \/>\n* 5 Labour<br \/>\n* 19 Lib-Dems<br \/>\n* 3 Independents.<\/p>\n<p>The development of the Guildhall as a major asset for the town centre will be very important in the next four years, and it belongs to Town Council. The Town Council, among other things, runs the museum, half the town&#8217;s play parks, the cemeteries, and Markets. It runs various Community events, and is consulted, by the district and county council, on matters affecting the town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the sun goes down on the four year term of the current Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council there are some names I was suprised to see missing on the list of candidates for the next four years (Julie Mayhew-Archer, Lesley Legge, Alison Rooke, Iain Littlejohn): Standing to serve the town for the 2015 to 2019 term [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786","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=13786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}