{"id":756,"date":"2004-08-04T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-04T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/?p=756"},"modified":"2010-10-18T23:41:23","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T22:41:23","slug":"mike-gritton-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/2004\/08\/04\/mike-gritton-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Gritton RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was with much sadness, that we heard of the sudden death of the Group&#8217;s ex Chairman, Mike Gritton, on Tuesday 3rd August 2004. Mike was our Group Chairman from 1983, when Steve Padin re-started the Scout Troop, until 2002. By then, he thought that 19 years was enough. Along with his Treasurer, Maureen and Secretary, Irene, they helped get the Group to it&#8217;s healthy position today. When they retired, they were awarded the Chief Scout&#8217;s Commendation, Long Service Awards and The Medal of Merit (see below).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We are extremely sad to hear of Mike&#8217;s passing and offer our sympathies to Ann, Jonathan and all their family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was with much sadness, that we heard of the sudden death of the Group&#8217;s ex Chairman, Mike Gritton, on Tuesday 3rd August 2004. Mike was our Group Chairman from 1983, when Steve Padin re-started the Scout Troop, until 2002. By then, he thought that 19 years was enough. Along with his Treasurer, Maureen and&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/2004\/08\/04\/mike-gritton-rip\/\">Read More <i class=\"far fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"kia_subtitle":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgGvD-cc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}