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Former Head Teacher, Liz Kennedy, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/?p=8368\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iona Primary welcomes a very special VIP<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1454,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4482,4174,853,205,3424,61,3463,3360,812,98],"tags":[211],"class_list":["post-8368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communities-and-culture","category-events","category-geography","category-history","category-interdisciplinary","category-literacy","category-outdoor-learning","category-primary-schools","category-projects","category-rme","tag-iona"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8368"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8372,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions\/8372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}