{"id":16375,"date":"2016-06-04T21:26:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T20:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=16375"},"modified":"2016-06-04T21:26:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T20:26:08","slug":"ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=16375","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/08020101.jpg\" alt=\"Fun in The Parks\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/2009\/04\/south-abingdon-community-arts-project.html\">Back in 2009<\/a> a lot of the murals on the Reynolds Way wall were replaced. The originals had been subjects chosen by local young people in 2002, including a St George Flag, a Saky Tag, and a picture of Muhammed Ali. Ali was well remembered down that way because he used to visit a house in Saxton Road to see an old friend and supporter.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/08020102.jpg\" alt=\"Fun in The Parks\" \/><br \/>\nPerhaps there should be a road sign or something in his memory, not just a makeshift poster on the back of a telephone box. <\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to Martin for the link in the comments. Here are pictures of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-oxfordshire-16630467\">Muhammed Ali in Abingdon<\/a> from the BBC.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2009 a lot of the murals on the Reynolds Way wall were replaced. The originals had been subjects chosen by local young people in 2002, including a St George Flag, a Saky Tag, and a picture of Muhammed Ali. Ali was well remembered down that way because he used to visit a house [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16375","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=16375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}