{"id":51809,"date":"2014-12-18T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=a7693f0c5acb2c8067dc0bd8095a13e0"},"modified":"2014-12-18T10:00:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T10:00:03","slug":"news-story-lord-lieutenant-for-fife-robert-william-balfour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=51809","title":{"rendered":"News story: Lord-Lieutenant for Fife: Robert William Balfour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Queen has been pleased to appoint Robert William Balfour DL as Lord-Lieutenant for Fife to succeed Mrs C Margaret Dean CVO, who retired on 16 November 2014.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"biographical-notes\">Biographical notes<\/h2>\n<p>Robert Balfour is Managing Partner of Balbirnie Estate and Balbirnie Home Farms, Markinch, Fife. A former Convener of the Scottish Landowners Federation and Chairman of the Association of Deer Management Groups, he has also been an Area Board Member with Scottish Natural Heritage. <\/p>\n<p>Robert Balfour holds a number of voluntary positions in Fife and surrounding areas with an emphasis on countryside and coastal stewardship and preservation. He is currently a General Trustee of the Church of Scotland.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Robert William Balfour has been appointed as Her Majesty&#8217;s Lord-Lieutenant for Fife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}