{"id":231,"date":"2019-07-04T13:16:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T13:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help.redditchheritage.org.uk\/?p=231"},"modified":"2019-07-04T13:16:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T13:16:06","slug":"redditch-and-the-kingfisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Redditch and the Kingfisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Liam Basford writes&#8230;&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: small; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Calibri'; font-weight: normal; color: #000000; font-style: normal; display: inline;\">\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\n<p style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Dear Redditch Local History Society,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">I wonder if you could help me with some research that I am undertaking about the Redditch town crest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">I\u2019m particularly interested in the reasoning behind the town\u2019s affinity to the Kingfisher bird.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">I understand that originally, a Swift sat upon the crest but was later replaced by the Kingfisher. However, I cannot find any justification for this decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">It seems to be quite an important part of the town\u2019s identity, being used for the name of its shopping centre to its football teams mascot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Can anyone shed some light on this?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liam Basford writes&#8230;&#8230; Dear Redditch Local History Society, I wonder if you could help me with some research that I am undertaking about the Redditch town crest. I\u2019m particularly interested in the reasoning behind the town\u2019s affinity to the Kingfisher bird. I understand that originally, a Swift sat upon the crest but was later replaced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enquiry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvmha.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}