{"id":2095,"date":"2010-11-26T00:49:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T23:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2010-11-26T00:49:53","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T23:49:53","slug":"john-mason-charter-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=2095","title":{"rendered":"John Mason Charter Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John Mason Charter Day\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10112562.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Town Crier was outside the Guildhall to welcome teachers and Year 7 students from John Mason School. Every year Year 7 comes to the Guildhall to learn about some of Abingdon&#8217;s important buildings and some of their history.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John Mason Charter Day\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10112560.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Mayor, Duncan Brown welcomed everybody, then the students split into 9 different groups, and were taken on a tour of 9 different locations in the Guildhall itself, the Abbey Buildings, St Helen&#8217;s Church and the almshouses. <\/p>\n<p>The Mayor held court in the Guildhall&#8217;s Council Chamber, an oak panelled room rebuilt in 1733, where he entertained the students with a talk that began with the picture of Mad King George III who lost the American colonies &#8230; looked at many other seemingly uninteresting pictures in a fun way &#8230; discovered a statue outside riddled with civil war musket fire &#8230; and ended with a picture of the town council in 1878. The students had to say what might have changed between 1878 to 2010. For a start the council in 1878 were all male, looked elderly, sported a lot of facial hair, and did not smile.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John Mason Charter Day\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10112564.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nI have a copy of the leaflet and questionnaire the pupils carried round during the morning. It says at the start &#8220;<i>Have fun and be a credit to John Mason<\/i>&#8220;. <\/p>\n<p>It was. <strong>They were.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Town Crier was outside the Guildhall to welcome teachers and Year 7 students from John Mason School. Every year Year 7 comes to the Guildhall to learn about some of Abingdon&#8217;s important buildings and some of their history. The Mayor, Duncan Brown welcomed everybody, then the students split into 9 different groups, and were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,83],"tags":[281],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-heritage","tag-john-mason"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","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=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}