{"id":2317,"date":"2018-04-18T12:09:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T12:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2018-04-20T12:20:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T12:20:28","slug":"lizzie-yarnold-mbe-tours-sevenoaks-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2317","title":{"rendered":"Lizzy Yarnold MBE Tours Sevenoaks District"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2315\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2315\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?attachment_id=2315\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2315\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/yarnold3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lizzie with her 2 gold medals\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lizzy with her 2 gold medals beside the gold bus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Crowds turned out in force to welcome and congratulate Lizzy with her 2 Olympic gold medals for the sport of Skeleton.\u00a0 The first medal was awarded in 2014 at the Sochi Winter Olympic Games and the second was gained this year at the 2018 Korea Winter Games in PyeongChang.\u00a0 She was the only British athlete to gain a gold medal at this event.<\/p>\n<p>Lizzy started her tour of the Sevenoaks area in an open-topped bus which left the District Council offices at 9.30 am and then visited as many schools as possible throughout the morning, meeting students from Knole Acadamy, Weald of Kent, Trinity, Otford, Shoreham, Eynsford, Farningham, Swanley, HortonKirby and finally West Kingsdown.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2313\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?attachment_id=2313\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2313\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2313\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/yarnold-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"Lizzie Yarnold with Michael at SDC offices\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lizzy Yarnold with Michael at SDC offices<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowds turned out in force to welcome and congratulate Lizzy with her 2 Olympic gold medals for the sport of Skeleton.\u00a0 The first medal was awarded in 2014 at the Sochi Winter Olympic Games and the second was gained this year at the 2018 Korea Winter Games in PyeongChang.\u00a0 She was the only British athlete &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2317\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lizzy Yarnold MBE Tours Sevenoaks District&#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":[788,787,783,784,786,11,449,785],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317"}],"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=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}