{"id":7358,"date":"2012-09-22T21:17:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T20:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7358"},"modified":"2012-09-22T21:17:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T20:17:15","slug":"mgb-50th-anniversary-celebration-10-mgbs-on-display-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7358","title":{"rendered":"MGB 50th anniversary celebration &#8211; 10 MGBs on display in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12092001.jpg\" alt=\"Eve of MGB 50\" \/><br \/>\nMGB enthusiasts and retired workers from the MGB production line in Abingdon \u00a0will be meeting at Blenheim Palace for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mgb50.com\">50th anniversary<\/a> of the MGB tomorrow.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12092002.jpg\" alt=\"Eve of MGB 50\" \/><br \/>\nIt was first launched in September 1962 and ceased production in October 1980.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12092004.jpg\" alt=\"Eve of MGB 50\" \/><br \/>\nThis afternoon ten MGBs assembled on the Market Place in Abingdon, and others were to be seen driving, or parked, in town today.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12092005.jpg\" alt=\"Eve of MGB 50\" \/><br \/>\nThe last MGB to be produced, painted bronze, is on fairly permanent display at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abingdonmuseum.org.uk\/\">Abingdon Conty Hall Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MGB enthusiasts and retired workers from the MGB production line in Abingdon \u00a0will be meeting at Blenheim Palace for the 50th anniversary of the MGB tomorrow. It was first launched in September 1962 and ceased production in October 1980. This afternoon ten MGBs assembled on the Market Place in Abingdon, and others were to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7358","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=7358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}