{"id":68252,"date":"2016-03-07T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=39e3d699c0da4e4aacc9ceb2756641a9"},"modified":"2016-03-07T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T10:00:07","slug":"press-release-constable-of-the-tower-of-london-general-sir-nicholas-houghton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=68252","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Constable of the Tower of London: General Sir Nicholas Houghton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Queen has approved the appointment of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/people\/nicholas-houghton\">General Sir Nicholas Houghton<\/a> as the next Constable of the Tower of London in succession to General the Lord Dannatt with effect 31 July 2016.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"notes-to-editors\">Notes to editors<\/h2>\n<p>The Constable is the most senior appointment at the Tower, which is a royal palace and fortress, as well as one of the most visited paid-for heritage attractions in the UK. <\/p>\n<p>Since 1784 the Constable has always been a senior military officer. Today, the role of Constable is conferred upon field marshals or retired generals with distinguished service and is expected to be for a period of 5 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen has approved the appointment of General Sir Nicholas Houghton as the next Constable of the Tower of London.<\/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\/68252"}],"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=68252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}