{"id":1192,"date":"2016-05-10T14:12:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T14:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2016-05-10T14:12:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T14:12:30","slug":"michael-spends-a-sunny-friday-in-sevenoaks-and-swanley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1192","title":{"rendered":"Michael Spends a Sunny Friday in Sevenoaks and Swanley"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1193\" style=\"width: 4992px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1193\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Prime-Place-Opening-6th-May-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Michael with the Mayor of Sevenoaks and representatives from Prime Place.\" width=\"4992\" height=\"3328\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Prime-Place-Opening-6th-May-2016.jpg 4992w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Prime-Place-Opening-6th-May-2016-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Prime-Place-Opening-6th-May-2016-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Prime-Place-Opening-6th-May-2016-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Prime-Place-Opening-6th-May-2016-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael with the Mayor of Sevenoaks and representatives from Prime Place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last Friday, Michael spent a busy day in Sevenoaks and Swanley. \u00a0He visited Amherst School in the morning, answering pupils&#8217; questions in a special assembly, before meeting\u00a0local councillors in Swanley.<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon, he joined residents and staff of\u00a0Gloucester House Nursing Home in Sevenoaks to celebrate\u00a0its 25th\u00a0anniversary celebrations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1194\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1194\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1194\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_6492.jpg\" alt=\"Michael speaking to pupils at Amherst School.\" width=\"233\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_6492.jpg 3000w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_6492-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_6492-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_6492-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 85vw, 233px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael speaking to pupils at Amherst School.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Speaking about the visit, Michael said: &#8220;I was very pleased to help the staff and residents of Gloucester House to celebrate this anniversary.\u00a0 Speaking to the residents, it was clear that they have happy, fulfilled lives at the home thanks to its hardworking staff.\u00a0 That local, tailored approach is vital and we need to replicate it as much as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After speaking to residents, he travelled to Prime Place in the heart of Sevenoaks, where he joined the Mayor of Sevenoaks, Cllr Stephen Arnold, to open the new sales and marketing suite. \u00a0Commenting on the opening, Michael said:\u00a0\u201cI first visited Prime Place, Sevenoaks last year, when it was little more than a building site. It\u2019s a pleasure to see how much progress has been made and I look forward to seeing the completed development next year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, Michael spent a busy day in Sevenoaks and Swanley. \u00a0He visited Amherst School in the morning, answering pupils&#8217; questions in a special assembly, before meeting\u00a0local councillors in Swanley. In the afternoon, he joined residents and staff of\u00a0Gloucester House Nursing Home in Sevenoaks to celebrate\u00a0its 25th\u00a0anniversary celebrations. Speaking about the visit, Michael said: &#8220;I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1192\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Michael Spends a Sunny Friday in Sevenoaks and Swanley&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[27,477,476,11,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}