{"id":20016,"date":"2018-03-06T17:06:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T17:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=20016"},"modified":"2018-03-06T17:06:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T17:06:15","slug":"first-purple-plaque-unveiled-outside-senedd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/first-purple-plaque-unveiled-outside-senedd\/","title":{"rendered":"First purple plaque unveiled outside Senedd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A scheme to honour influential Welsh women has seen the unveiling of the UK&#8217;s first purple plaque.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The plaque, commemorating late Labour Assembly Member Val Feld was unveiled outside the Senedd today ahead of International Women&#8217;s Day on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme was launched last year by the Labour Women&#8217;s Group in the assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Crowds gathered outside the Senedd to commemorate Ms Feld, who represented Swansea East from 1999 to 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Before becoming an AM, Ms Feld was Director of the Equal Opportunities Commission for Wales and Shelter Cymru.<\/p>\n<p>Former AM Sue Essex worked alongside Ms Feld in the second assembly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was an absolute campaigner for women in Wales,&#8221; Ms Essex said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is wonderful about the launch of today&#8217;s purple plaque is that it has come at the same time we are remembering the suffragettes and how brave and committed they were,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Assembly Member for Cardiff North, Julie Morgan said: &#8220;A day like today highlights the fact that women have achieved so much in Wales but they&#8217;re not recognised and so we want purple plaques all over Wales showing what a fantastic job women have done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The event today was the first in a number to mark 100 years since some women won the vote in 1918 and also International Women&#8217;s Day on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scheme to honour influential Welsh women has seen the unveiling of the UK&#8217;s first purple plaque.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744,750],"tags":[1529,1528,114,1295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20016"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20124,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20016\/revisions\/20124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}