{"id":4530,"date":"2026-09-14T19:49:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T18:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?p=4530"},"modified":"2026-09-14T19:49:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T18:49:28","slug":"nick-busby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?p=4530","title":{"rendered":"Nick Busby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just had some very sad news.\u00a0 Nick Busby, one of the founders of the Abergavenny Astronomy Society, our chair until last year, and also a stalwart of the Usk Astronomical Society, died last night (Sunday).<br>As those who attend our meetings will be aware he has been undergoing treatment for some time.<br>He will be sorely missed by our society.\u00a0 He was by far the most astronomically knowledgeable person in the society and devoted a huge amount of time and effort to education and support for all things astro both locally and nationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m sure we will all wish to offer our condolences to his family at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just had some very sad news.\u00a0 Nick Busby, one of the founders of the Abergavenny Astronomy Society, our chair until last year, and also a stalwart of the Usk Astronomical Society, died last night (Sunday).As those who attend our meetings will be aware he has been undergoing treatment for some time.He will be sorely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4531,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions\/4531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}