{"id":14214,"date":"2015-06-02T22:48:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T21:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14214"},"modified":"2015-06-02T22:48:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T21:48:17","slug":"the-newest-yeoman-warder-at-hm-tower-of-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14214","title":{"rendered":"The Newest Yeoman Warder at HM Tower of London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15060201.jpg\" alt=\"Off to the Tower\" \/><br \/>\nSpike Abbott has moved from Abingdon to become the newest member of the Body of Yeoman Warders at HM Tower of London.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15060202.jpg\" alt=\"Off to the Tower\" \/><br \/>\nBefore becoming a Yeoman Warder, Spike served for 35 years with the RAF, and is pictured above at his leaving event. <\/p>\n<p>He was often to be seen at Civic Events in Abingdon &#8211; such as Remembrance Day and Freedom Ceremonies. A condition for becoming a Yeoman Warder &#8211; popularly known as a Beefeater &#8211; is to serve for at least 22 years with HM armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>Spike lived in Abingdon from 1981, and his wife is here in Abingdon for a few months more. I think she still volunteers at Abingdon County Hall Museum. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spike Abbott has moved from Abingdon to become the newest member of the Body of Yeoman Warders at HM Tower of London. Before becoming a Yeoman Warder, Spike served for 35 years with the RAF, and is pictured above at his leaving event. He was often to be seen at Civic Events in Abingdon &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14214","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=14214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}