{"id":1582,"date":"2021-03-08T21:52:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T21:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aberdeenanddistrictreferees.co.uk\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2026-09-01T11:57:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T11:57:40","slug":"alan-walker-the-london-marathon-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aberdeenanddistrictreferees.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/alan-walker-the-london-marathon-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Walker &#038; The London Marathon 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately, Alan Walker, one of our long-serving members (circa 40 years service) has intimated that he has been diagnosed as having Mild Alzheimer\u2019s Disease \/ Dementia.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is positive news that his consultant has prescribed medication which seems to be having an effect, to the extent that Alan is keen to continue his work with the Minor Grades Advisory Panel \u2013 whenever Grassroots football gets the go-ahead to restart!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reference to The London Marathon is because Alan\u2019s son, Steve, has secured a place in the London Marathon (October 2021) and will be running to raise money for Alzheimer\u2019s Research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br> Steve has setup a just giving page <br> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/fundraising\/steve-walker39\">https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/fundraising\/steve-walker39 <\/a><br> and his contact details are <br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:stevewalker774@gmail.com\">stevewalker774@gmail.com<\/a> for any further details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br> Hopefully, our members will be able to support Steve in this very worthwhile cause. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, Alan Walker, one of our long-serving members (circa 40 years service) has intimated that he has been diagnosed as having Mild Alzheimer\u2019s Disease \/ Dementia. There is positive news that his consultant has prescribed medication which seems to be having an effect, to the extent that Alan is keen to continue his work with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-charity","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberdeenanddistrictreferees.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberdeenanddistrictreferees.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberdeenanddistrictreferees.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberdeenanddistrictreferees.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberdeenanddistrictreferees.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberdeenanddistrictreferees.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1584,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberdeenanddistrictreferees.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions\/1584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberdeenanddistrictreferees.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberdeenanddistrictreferees.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberdeenanddistrictreferees.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}