{"id":8688,"date":"2013-04-24T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8688"},"modified":"2013-04-24T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T22:30:00","slug":"a-short-tribute-to-penny-mcdougall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8688","title":{"rendered":"A short tribute to Penny McDougall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13042402.jpg\" alt=\"Penny McDougall\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldseries.co.uk\/news\/10374246.Councillors_join_final_farewell_to_colleague\/\">A fuller tribute<\/a> is printed in this week&#8217;s Herald. <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was the funeral at St Helen&#8217;s Church of Penny McDougall &#8211; an Abingdon-on-Thames town councillor, who died unexpectedly just over a week ago. These pictures were at last year&#8217;s bun throwing.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13042401.jpg\" alt=\"Penny McDougall\" \/><br \/>\nPenny was  described as a dedicated mum, and grandmother, who for two years became a councillor and dedicated some of her great energies to improving Abingdon &#8211; in which role she was described as a breath of fresh air.<\/p>\n<p>At the funeral her youngest son read a poem which his mum had chosen &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230;Tomorrow is not promised to anyone,<br \/>\nyoung or old alike,<br \/>\nAnd today may be the last chance<br \/>\nyou get to hold your loved one tight.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re waiting for tomorrow,<br \/>\nwhy not do it today?<br \/>\nFor if tomorrow never comes,<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ll surely regret the day,<\/p>\n<p>That you didn&#8217;t take that extra time<br \/>\nfor a smile, a hug, or a kiss<br \/>\nand you were too busy to grant someone,<br \/>\nwhat turned out to be their one last wish&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Author Unknown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fuller tribute is printed in this week&#8217;s Herald. Yesterday was the funeral at St Helen&#8217;s Church of Penny McDougall &#8211; an Abingdon-on-Thames town councillor, who died unexpectedly just over a week ago. These pictures were at last year&#8217;s bun throwing. Penny was described as a dedicated mum, and grandmother, who for two years became [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688","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=8688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}