{"id":660,"date":"2011-04-09T21:59:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T20:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/?p=660"},"modified":"2018-05-25T09:35:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T09:35:17","slug":"mayor-of-kilkenny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/?p=660","title":{"rendered":"Mayor of  Kilkenny"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_626\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/17-march-2011-049.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-626\" class=\"size-full wp-image-626\" title=\"17 march  2011 049\" src=\"https:\/\/keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/17-march-2011-049.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/17-march-2011-049.jpg 640w, https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/17-march-2011-049-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/17-march-2011-049-624x414.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-626\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor of Kilkenny. Copyright: Keep Kilkenny Beautiful.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Mayor of Kilkenny at the Kilkenny St Patrick&#8217;s Parade 2011.\u00a0 Kilkenny has been a city since 1609 when it was given a charter. For more information, see Kilkenny400.ie<\/p>\n<p>Our current mayor follows a proud tradition. There has been the position of Sovereign\/Mayor in Kilkenny for many centuries. The earliest recorded Sovereign was Robert Palmer in 1282.\u00a0 Since then there is an\u00a0 unbroken record of the first citizen each year. In 1609 following the receipt of the City charter, the first Mayor was\u00a0 Thomas Ley (until Michaelmas) and then Robert Rothe.\u00a0\u00a0 For two years 1655-1656 Daniel Axtell\u00a0 was military governor in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayor of Kilkenny at the Kilkenny St Patrick&#8217;s Parade 2011.\u00a0 Kilkenny has been a city since 1609 when it was given a charter. For more information, see Kilkenny400.ie Our current mayor follows a proud tradition. There has been the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/?p=660\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,10,1],"tags":[134,294,317,322,363,477,505,507],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cityscape","category-kilkenny-city","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-city","tag-ireland","tag-kilkenny","tag-kkb","tag-mayor","tag-saint-patrick","tag-st-patrick","tag-st-patricks-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3333,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/3333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}