{"id":5296,"date":"2017-04-01T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T00:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=5296"},"modified":"2017-04-02T08:37:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T08:37:12","slug":"horsington-tickled-pink-in-national-parish-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=5296","title":{"rendered":"Horsington tickled pink in national Parish competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Horsington and South Cheriton stand to gain substantial benefits if the Parish, currently shortlisted for the L&#8217;Oreally Parish of the Year Competition, is successful in the finals.<\/p>\n<p>The competition, sponsored by the famous French\/Irish cosmetics company, is for the parish in the UK which best exemplifies civic virtues, is attractive and well-kept, has a pub (we have two), a pond, a blog, and has every front door painted in the colour of the sponsor&#8217;s latest lipstick colour &#8221; Cauchemar Cerise&#8221;.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5300\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?attachment_id=5300\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG-20170331-WA0000.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,401\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG-20170331-WA0000\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG-20170331-WA0000.jpg\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5300\" src=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG-20170331-WA0000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG-20170331-WA0000.jpg 600w, http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG-20170331-WA0000-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 85vw, 567px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>A typical workman&#8217;s cottage in Horsington, showing the attractive front door colour.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The prizewinning village will trouser a prize of EUR 50,000, to be spent on a civil project to be decided by the \u00a0parish council.<\/p>\n<p>But it gets better. If, in a second referendum on Brexit, the village votes to remain in the EU, there will be:<\/p>\n<p>Annual income\u00a0of EUR 25,000 per resident household, tax free.<\/p>\n<p>A free pony\u00a0for every child<\/p>\n<p>A charter flight every year to visit Horsington&#8217;s twin town in the wine-making district of Haut Cotes de Poubelles\u00a0 in the Rhone area.<\/p>\n<p>A big Christmas party with champagne and an Irish band<\/p>\n<p>A wine allowance for every resident, to be served in either the White Horse or the Half Moon.<\/p>\n<p>A new cricket pavilion<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5299\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?attachment_id=5299\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/03\/LOreally.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2744,2919\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"L&#8217;Oreally\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/03\/LOreally-963x1024.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-5299 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/03\/LOreally.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/03\/LOreally.jpg 2744w, http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/03\/LOreally-282x300.jpg 282w, http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/03\/LOreally-768x817.jpg 768w, http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/03\/LOreally-963x1024.jpg 963w, http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/03\/LOreally-1200x1277.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 85vw, 254px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A car and a tax-free allowance for the editor of the village news medium (of course, this means the Blog -Ed).<\/p>\n<p>Free repainting of every front door in the latest lipstick colour every 6 months.<\/p>\n<p>The Blog has learned that the panel of judges will be visiting Horsington and South Cheriton on Saturday April 1st, and everyone is asked to be on best behaviour, smile at strangers, not put washing out or beat carpets, and keep car washing to an absolute minimum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Come on everyone, we can do it! Your editor needs a new car! Ed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Horsington and South Cheriton stand to gain substantial benefits if the Parish, currently shortlisted for the L&#8217;Oreally Parish of the Year Competition, is successful in the finals. The competition, sponsored by the famous French\/Irish cosmetics company, is for the parish in the UK which best exemplifies civic virtues, is attractive and well-kept, has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=5296\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Horsington tickled pink in national Parish competition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-1nq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5296"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5313,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions\/5313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}