{"id":13365,"date":"2022-04-18T13:59:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T13:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/?p=13365"},"modified":"2022-04-20T16:02:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T16:02:19","slug":"billy-johnston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/18\/billy-johnston\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Johnston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have learnt today with sadness of the death of Billy Johnston, father of our good friend Paul, brother to two of our Vice Presidents Robert and Norman and of course grandad to Josh Gilmore. \u00a0After a long association with Saintfield Hockey Club Billy joined North Down and played for many years on the thirds, fourths and fifths.\u00a0 All at North Down send their condolences to Paul and all of the family.\u00a0 Billy&#8217;s funeral will be this Friday 22nd at 10.00 am at the Iron Hall, Templemore Avenue, Belfast and afterwards to Comber Cemetery on the Newtownards Road, Comber.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-13365 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Billy-Johnston.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"252\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Billy-Johnston.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-13366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Billy-Johnston.jpg 252w, https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Billy-Johnston-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-13366'>\n\t\t\t\tBilly Johnston with the 1987 5th XI\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have learnt today with sadness of the death of Billy Johnston, father of our good friend Paul, brother to two of our Vice Presidents Robert and Norman and of course grandad to Josh Gilmore. \u00a0After a long association with Saintfield Hockey Club Billy joined North Down and played for many years on the thirds,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13365"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13371,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13365\/revisions\/13371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}