{"id":2494,"date":"2015-12-31T15:42:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T12:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2016-03-27T19:26:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T16:26:46","slug":"honoured-aged-96-lena-charles-from-blaengarw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2494","title":{"rendered":"Honoured aged 96 &#8211; Lena Charles, from Blaengarw."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"story-body__h1\" data-asset-uri=\"\/news\/uk-wales-35205175\">New Year Honours: Volunteer, 96, delighted with BEM<\/h3>\n<div class=\"map-body\">\n<p>Among the New Year Honours in Wales is a BEM for 96-year-old Lena Charles from Blaengarw, Bridgend.<\/p>\n<div class=\"hide-wrapper extra-content\">\n<p>She still organises tea dances and conducts Sunday services in the local chapel.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Charles was a member of Women&#8217;s Royal Voluntary Service for more than 40 years and involved in entertaining children from Chernobyl on annual holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Click below\u00a0to view a short video.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-35205175\" target=\"_blank\">Read more on the BBC News website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Year Honours: Volunteer, 96, delighted with BEM Among the New Year Honours in Wales is a BEM for 96-year-old Lena Charles from Blaengarw, Bridgend. She still organises tea dances and conducts Sunday services in the local chapel. Mrs Charles was a member of Women&#8217;s Royal Voluntary Service for more than 40 years and involved&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[183],"class_list":["post-2494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garw-personalities","tag-lena-charles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523,"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.garwheritage.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}