{"id":5049,"date":"2011-11-05T15:27:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T14:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5049"},"modified":"2011-11-05T15:27:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T14:27:02","slug":"janet-morgan-given-the-freedom-of-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5049","title":{"rendered":"Janet Morgan given the Freedom of Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11110501.jpg\" alt=\"Janet Morgan\" \/><br \/>\nJanet Morgan was given the Freedom of the Town of Abingdon in a special ceremony this morning. She is a past Mayor who during her year as Mayor, 1988, started up the Clubs and Societies Day &#8211; which is still running. Next one will be April 21st.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11110502.jpg\" alt=\"Janet Morgan\" \/><br \/>\nShe was a town councillor starting in 1983, district councillor starting in 1987 and ending in 2011 (and leader of the council from 1995-97 during which time she helped set up the youth forum), and county councillor (and Lib-Dem education spokesman for several years). As an ex-teacher she has been a governor at 3 schools and still is actively involved at John Mason. She joins a small select group of men who have been given the Freedom of the Town, the highest civic honour the town has to offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janet Morgan was given the Freedom of the Town of Abingdon in a special ceremony this morning. She is a past Mayor who during her year as Mayor, 1988, started up the Clubs and Societies Day &#8211; which is still running. Next one will be April 21st. She was a town councillor starting in 1983, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[222],"class_list":["post-5049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ceremony","tag-civic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049","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=5049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}