{"id":9127,"date":"2013-06-19T00:02:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T23:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9127"},"modified":"2013-06-19T00:02:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T23:02:18","slug":"candidates-for-mayor-of-ock-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9127","title":{"rendered":"Candidates for Mayor of Ock Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday 22nd June, three candidates are standing for the post of Mayor of Ock Street (or Mock Mayor of Abingdon and Squire of The Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers) &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13061801.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of Ock Street  election\" \/><br \/>\nRoger Cox has done an excellent job as Mayor since being first elected in 2007. But he has strong competition in 2013 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Harry Knight would make a fine Mayor. But I fear the Morris Dancers would miss his accordion playing. <\/p>\n<p>Duncan Brown would make a fine Mayor. He was the youngest ever Mayor of Abingdon and has acted as a fine fool for the Morris Dancers since taking on that role last year. But I fear they would miss his fooling.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13061802.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of Ock Street  election\" \/><br \/>\nThere are no manifestos in this election. Election day is a day of dancing and drinking. <\/p>\n<p>First dance is outside the Black Swan at 10am.  The result is declared soon after 4pm at the Brewery Tap.  Dancing continues until 8 or 9pm. Last dance is on the Market Place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday 22nd June, three candidates are standing for the post of Mayor of Ock Street (or Mock Mayor of Abingdon and Squire of The Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers) &#8230; Roger Cox has done an excellent job as Mayor since being first elected in 2007. But he has strong competition in 2013 &#8230; Harry Knight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127","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=9127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}