{"id":180,"date":"2025-08-21T00:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/burpengaryshed.org\/?p=180"},"modified":"2025-08-21T06:57:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T06:57:33","slug":"vale-allan-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burpengaryshed.org\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Vale Allan Morgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">Sad news received that one of our founding members Allan Morgan passed away<br \/>\non Thursday 31 July 2025 after a long illness at the age of 83.<\/p>\n<p>Extract from &#8220;The Dream&#8221; Burpengary and District Men&#8217;s Shed..<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In mid-2014 Rodney Hansen member of Wamuran Men&#8217;s Shed at the time attended<br \/>\na sausage sizzle at Bunnings Morayfield where he was approached about why<br \/>\nthere was no Men&#8217;s Shed in the Burpengary and Morayfield areas.<\/p>\n<p>From these inquiries Rodney approached the local newspaper to run an<br \/>\nadvertisement seeking interest from men in the area who were interested in<br \/>\nstarting a Men&#8217;s Shed. As a result, of this advertisement John Hulme<br \/>\ncontacted Rodney and informed him of a group of men (Allan Morgan, John<br \/>\nBeard, Bob McLachlan, Peter Wieden and John Hulme) who met on a regular<br \/>\nbasis at a private shed in Peterson Road. Following this discussion Rodney<br \/>\ncontacted these gentlemen and arranged a meeting. At this meeting it was<br \/>\nidentified these men had a similar dream to start a Men&#8217;s Shed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Allan officially joined the Burpengary and District Men&#8217;s Shed on 24<br \/>\nSeptember 2015 and was shed member #2, and he was awarded Life Membership in<br \/>\n2021.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad news received that one of our founding members Allan Morgan passed away on Thursday 31 July 2025 after a long illness at the age of 83. Extract from &#8220;The Dream&#8221; Burpengary and District Men&#8217;s Shed.. &#8220;In mid-2014 Rodney Hansen member of Wamuran Men&#8217;s Shed at the time attended a sausage sizzle at Bunnings Morayfield [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gallery","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burpengaryshed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burpengaryshed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burpengaryshed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burpengaryshed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burpengaryshed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/burpengaryshed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/burpengaryshed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burpengaryshed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burpengaryshed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burpengaryshed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burpengaryshed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}