{"id":535,"date":"2008-11-24T00:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2008\/11\/24\/colmar-an-interesting-few-days\/"},"modified":"2008-11-24T00:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T00:16:00","slug":"colmar-an-interesting-few-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"Colmar &#8211; an interesting few days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One for the twin town followers&#8230;<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08112305.jpg\" \/><br \/>Colmar Book Fair has been on for the last couple of days. The theme this year is &#8220;la nuit&#8221; &#8211; the night. A couple of visitors went to represent the Abingdon and District Twin Town Society. They took local produce for visitors to the fair to sample.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08112304.jpg\" \/><br \/>This year&#8217;s twin towns Mayors conference was also to be in Colmar, but it had to been called off late in the day because Colmar is without a Mayor. A temporary administration is in place.<\/p>\n<p>The first picture shows the elected Mayor of Colmar after his win in March. He won by 50% to 49% in March.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08112303.jpg\" \/><br \/>The second picture shows the Mayor leaving office in October after the administration of Alsace annulled the election. A judicial challenge has been made against the election result and the elections will be re-run on 30th Nov &amp; 7th Dec.<\/p>\n<p>So lots happening in Colmar.  All to be found on the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One for the twin town followers&#8230;Colmar Book Fair has been on for the last couple of days. The theme this year is &#8220;la nuit&#8221; &#8211; the night. A couple of visitors went to represent the Abingdon and District Twin Town Society. They took local produce for visitors to the fair to sample.This year&#8217;s twin towns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","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=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}