{"id":4995,"date":"2010-05-05T06:42:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T10:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4995"},"modified":"2010-05-05T06:35:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T10:35:07","slug":"button-becomes-first-freeman-of-hometown-frome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/button-becomes-first-freeman-of-hometown-frome\/","title":{"rendered":"Button becomes first freeman of hometown Frome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jenson Button returned on Tuesday to his birthplace of Frome, England, where he became the first ever freeman of the hilly country town in Somerset.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The reigning world champion, and current championship leader, took a McLaren formula one car to the ceremony but joked he was confused about what the honorary title bestowed him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t really know what I can do with it,&#8221; the 30-year-old, accompanied by his mother Simone, is quoted as saying by the Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it&#8217;s pretty special nonetheless,&#8221; he added, before touring the three schools he attended in Frome and learning that a footbridge he used to play on as a child will be renamed &#8216;Jenson Button Bridge&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>About 2,500 Frome residents &#8211; a tenth of the town&#8217;s entire population &#8211; attended the event, where Button received a framed scroll from the mayor.<\/p>\n<p>And his mother, divorced from Button&#8217;s grand prix travelling companion and father John, recalled how she came up with her son&#8217;s name in early 1980.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was me who looked out of the hospital window and saw a lovely car, a Jensen Interceptor, and called him after it, just changing the e to an o,&#8221; she told the Daily Express.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenson Button returned on Tuesday to his birthplace of Frome, England, where he became the first ever freeman of the hilly country town in Somerset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5344,5262,5261,5340,1514,153,5284],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4996,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions\/4996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}