{"id":3936,"date":"2014-04-01T09:45:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T09:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=3936"},"modified":"2014-04-01T09:45:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T09:45:49","slug":"new-bristol-coat-of-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=3936","title":{"rendered":"New Bristol coat of arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a meeting of Mayor George Ferguson&#8217;s cabinet today down <del>at City Hall<\/del> the Counts Louse today. <\/p>\n<p>Amongst the items on the agenda are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-bristol-26716751\">sale of the freehold of Avonmouth and Royal Portbury Docks<\/a> for a mere &pound;10 mn. to the Bristol Port Company.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are more controversial items to be discussed. A mole down the Counts Louse has revealed that a new coat of arms and motto for the city have been proposed. Our new elected <del>autocrat<\/del> Mayor believes &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=3872\" title=\"Virtute et Industrial\">Virtute et Industrial<\/a>&#8221; (Virtue and Industry) is no longer appropriate given the changes he&#8217;s made since being elected and believes the city would be better served by the more apposite &#8220;Carpe Omnium&#8221; (Grab it all). He also believes the city&#8217;s coat of arms should be redesigned too, likewise to reflect his achievements.<\/p>\n<p>For the benefit of readers I&#8217;ve mocked up the new motto and a new coat of arms to show what Bristol could be letting itself in for.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3938\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3938\" style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/04\/Carpe_Omnium2.png\" alt=\"a mock coat of arms featuring red trousers and the motto Carpe Omnium\" width=\"432\" height=\"446\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/04\/Carpe_Omnium2.png 432w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/04\/Carpe_Omnium2-290x300.png 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bristol&#8217;s new coat of arms?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The council press office is denying rumours that the Cabinet is also discussing a motion to rename the city Georgetown in honour of the Mayor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a meeting of Mayor George Ferguson&#8217;s cabinet today down at City Hall the Counts Louse today. Amongst the items on the agenda are the sale of the freehold of Avonmouth and Royal Portbury Docks for a mere &pound;10 mn. to the Bristol Port Company. However, there are more controversial items to be discussed. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3940,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions\/3940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}