{"id":16057,"date":"2016-04-20T21:07:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T20:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=16057"},"modified":"2016-04-20T21:07:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T20:07:59","slug":"happy-90th-birthday-maam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=16057","title":{"rendered":"Happy 90th Birthday Ma&#8217;am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eZ-JC3ilEVU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nIt is almost 60 years since the Queen opened the restored County Hall in the popular Thameside resort of Abingdon, and unveiled a plaque to commemorate the event.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16042004.jpg\" alt=\"QE2 90\" \/><br \/>\nBack then Abingdon had a Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses. Nowadays there is a Mayor and Councillors.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16042001.jpg\" alt=\"QE2 90\" \/><br \/>\nOn the eve of Her Majesty&#8217;s 90th birthday, three of Abingdon&#8217;s Charity Shops have 90th birthday displays:<\/p>\n<p>Helen and Douglas House.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16042002.jpg\" alt=\"QE2 90\" \/><br \/>\nCancer Research UK<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16042003.jpg\" alt=\"QE2 90\" \/><br \/>\nand Sue Ryder. <\/p>\n<p>There will be a lighting of the Beacon on the County Hall Roof &#8211; Thursday, 21 April 2016 &#8211; 8:30pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is almost 60 years since the Queen opened the restored County Hall in the popular Thameside resort of Abingdon, and unveiled a plaque to commemorate the event. Back then Abingdon had a Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses. Nowadays there is a Mayor and Councillors. On the eve of Her Majesty&#8217;s 90th birthday, three of Abingdon&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16057","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=16057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}