{"id":2280,"date":"2012-09-18T10:02:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T09:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pencaitland.org\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2019-05-19T08:52:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T07:52:31","slug":"pencaitland-loses-lollipop-man-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/pencaitland-loses-lollipop-man-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Pencaitland loses Lollipop man Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bill Wise in the summer of 2009 with a young Ben Averbuch on his last day at Pencaitland Nursery.\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3390\/3660542917_8bf5acc80c_n.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Wise in the summer of 2009 with a young Ben Averbuch on his last day at Pencaitland Nursery.<\/figcaption><\/figure><strong>It is with great sadness that we have to report the sudden death over the weekend of William &#8216;Bill&#8217; Wise, Pencaitland&#8217;s local Lollipop man.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Living in Ormiston, Bill has been a regular fixture at the Pencaitland crossing of the A6093 into the Glebe and many locals, parents and kids got to know him well over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Always ready with a smile and some banter, Bill could be relied upon to be there whatever the weather. He will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n<p>If we receive word on funeral arrangements we will report it <a href=\"http:\/\/pencaitland.org\/lollipop-man-bills-funeral-set-for-wed-26th\/\" title=\"Lollipop man Bill\u2019s funeral set for Wed 26th\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great sadness that we have to report the sudden death over the weekend of William &#8216;Bill&#8217; Wise, Pencaitland&#8217;s local Lollipop man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,20],"tags":[9,488,370],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-notices","tag-news-2","tag-obituary","tag-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5063,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions\/5063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}