{"id":1929,"date":"2010-11-10T13:46:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T03:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2010-11-10T13:46:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T03:46:08","slug":"the-mayor-of-essendon-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2010\/11\/the-mayor-of-essendon-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mayor of Essendon Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a fairly corny piece put together by Seven Nightly News in 1993, Mark Thompson was named &#8220;the new Mayor of Essendon&#8221; for a day, after captaining the Essendon Football Club to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1993_AFL_Grand_Final\">1993 AFL premiership<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"450\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td align=\"center\" width=\"450\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sKXDpnZ9Xzg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>With <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\">the return of Thompson to Windy Hill in December<\/a> as the senior assistant to new head coach <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Hird\">James Hird<\/a>, after a successful eleven season stint as the coach of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/geelongcats.com.au\/\">Geelong Cats<\/a>, the mayor in returning to his throne.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Welcome home Bomber, welcome home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a fairly corny piece put together by Seven Nightly News in 1993, Mark Thompson was named &#8220;the new Mayor of Essendon&#8221; for a day, after captaining the Essendon Football Club to the 1993 AFL premiership. With the return of Thompson to Windy Hill in December as the senior assistant to new head coach James [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[34,124,210,538],"class_list":["post-1929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport","tag-afl","tag-bombsaway","tag-essendon","tag-thompson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}