{"id":671,"date":"2010-06-22T00:14:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T23:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=671"},"modified":"2010-06-22T00:14:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T23:14:58","slug":"armed-forces-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"Armed Forces Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thankyou to David for these pictures.<\/p>\n<p>National Armed Forces Day is on Saturday 26 June 2010, but a lot of towns, including Abingdon, chose today to raise the Armed Forces Flag on Monday 21st.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10062301.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of Abingdon Presenting Medals\" \/><br \/>\nBefore the Flag raising, the Mayor of Abingdon presented medals to soldiers recently returned from Afghanistan.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10062302.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of Abingdon Presenting Medals\" \/><br \/>\nThe armed forces flag was then raised above the roof of the county hall.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10062304.jpg\" alt=\"Presentation to Town and Vale\" \/><br \/>\nAt a reception afterwards, the Royal Logistics Corps presented the Vale of White Horse, and Town of Abingdon with a framed set of pictures showing troops in action at the recent Freedom parade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thankyou to David for these pictures.<\/p>\n<p>National Armed Forces Day is on Saturday 26 June 2010, but a lot of towns, including Abingdon, chose today to raise the Armed Forces Flag on Monday 21st.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10062301.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of Abingdon Presenting Medals\" \/><br \/>\nBefore the Flag raising, the Mayor of Abingdon presented medals to soldiers recently returned from Afghanistan&#8230;.<\/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":[194,251],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ceremony","tag-armed-forces","tag-flag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","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=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}