{"id":5112,"date":"2020-05-07T16:57:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T15:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/?p=5112"},"modified":"2020-05-07T17:26:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T16:26:33","slug":"photo-album-of-wesleys-funeral-cortege-through-packington-on-friday-1st-may-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/photo-album-of-wesleys-funeral-cortege-through-packington-on-friday-1st-may-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Album of Wesley&#8217;s funeral cort\u00e8ge through Packington on Friday 1st May 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">See an album of photos on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PackingtonPost\/media_set?set=a.3166078936757349\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Packington Post Facebook page here<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PackingtonPost\/media_set?set=a.3166078936757349\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/rd20200501-1513-31_Packington-Wesley-Farewell-Cortege_IMG_5287w1400PPost-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/rd20200501-1513-31_Packington-Wesley-Farewell-Cortege_IMG_5287w1400PPost-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/rd20200501-1513-31_Packington-Wesley-Farewell-Cortege_IMG_5287w1400PPost-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/rd20200501-1513-31_Packington-Wesley-Farewell-Cortege_IMG_5287w1400PPost-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/rd20200501-1513-31_Packington-Wesley-Farewell-Cortege_IMG_5287w1400PPost-730x486.jpg 730w, https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/rd20200501-1513-31_Packington-Wesley-Farewell-Cortege_IMG_5287w1400PPost.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Wesley&#8217;s hearse reaches the top of Mill Street, to be greeted there by many villagers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On 1st May, Packington Village turned out at 3pm to bid <strong>farewell to Wesley Ewing<\/strong>, a highly popular village stalwart over decades. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His funeral at Bretby was restricted by current virus-control rules to only 10 people, but his funeral cort\u00e8ge left Charity Farm, Mill Street, and proceeded up Mill Street at walking pace with family and mourners walking behind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"481\" src=\"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/mb20200501_Wesley-cortege-leaves-HighSt-1024x481.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/mb20200501_Wesley-cortege-leaves-HighSt-1024x481.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/mb20200501_Wesley-cortege-leaves-HighSt-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/mb20200501_Wesley-cortege-leaves-HighSt-768x361.jpg 768w, https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/mb20200501_Wesley-cortege-leaves-HighSt-730x343.jpg 730w, https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/mb20200501_Wesley-cortege-leaves-HighSt.jpg 1185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The hearse leaves High Street for Bretby, with villagers lining the route &#8211; photo courtesy <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bassettsphotos.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Bassett of Bassetts Photos <\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The route was lined with village people, many clapping, many tearful.. all the staff of Daybreak Services joined village residents to line the route as the hearse left High Street en-route to Bretby<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See the album of photos on the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PackingtonPost\/media_set?set=a.3166078936757349\" target=\"_blank\">Packington Post Facebook page here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See an album of photos on the Packington Post Facebook page here On 1st May, Packington Village turned out at 3pm to bid farewell to Wesley Ewing, a highly popular village stalwart over decades. His funeral at Bretby was restricted by current virus-control rules to only 10 people, but his funeral cort\u00e8ge left Charity Farm, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/photo-album-of-wesleys-funeral-cortege-through-packington-on-friday-1st-may-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Photo Album of Wesley&#8217;s funeral cort\u00e8ge through Packington on Friday 1st May 2020&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,29,50,53,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-breakfast","category-major-event","category-neighbourhood-watch","category-packington-post","category-village-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5112"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5119,"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions\/5119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packington.info\/bloggle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}