{"id":2495,"date":"2022-04-21T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2022-04-26T15:11:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T15:11:50","slug":"celebrating-30-years-as-a-member-of-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=2495","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 30 years as a Member of Parliament."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/278485485_425346966065466_7184063832787958555_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2496\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>John Whittingdale was delighted to attend a dinner this week hosted by the Speaker, to celebrate 30 years of being a Member of Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was joined by 13 MPs from across Parliament who are also celebrating 30 years of dedicated service to their constituencies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Whittingdale said &#8220;On the 9th April 1992 I was elected to be the MP for South Colchester and Maldon. It has been an honour and a privilege to represent this area in Parliament for three decades now. We have seen a lot of change in the last 30 years, but one thing remains constant &#8211; my affection and admiration for all those who live in Maldon and the surrounding towns and villages. I hope to continue to serve you for as long as I am able to, and for as long as I have your support&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Whittingdale was delighted to attend a dinner this week hosted by the Speaker, to celebrate 30 years of being a Member of Parliament. He was joined by 13 MPs from across Parliament who are also celebrating 30 years of dedicated service to their constituencies. John Whittingdale said &#8220;On the 9th April 1992 I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-westminster-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2497,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions\/2497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}