{"id":303234,"date":"2025-07-30T06:38:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T06:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/303234\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T06:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T06:38:15","slug":"bristol-bus-boycott-legend-celebrated-at-surprise-80th-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/303234\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Bus Boycott legend celebrated at surprise 80th party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Wilson added: &#8220;It&#8217;s only since the last couple of years when they&#8217;re doing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-bristol-66593435#:~:text=The%2060th%20anniversary%20of%20a,refused%20to%20employ%20black%20drivers.\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">60th anniversary of the boycott<\/a> and things like that that I&#8217;ve gotten more and more involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve learnt a lot over the last three years&#8221;, she said. &#8220;He [Mr Reid-Bailey] says he didn&#8217;t come to England to do all these things &#8211; he just fell into them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When he saw there was something that needed to be tackled, he tackled it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Wilson said he told his uncle he was throwing a 25th anniversary party for his firm to make sure the 80th birthday party was a true surprise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m very, very proud of him,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s on the people such as Guy Bailey, Paul Stevenson &#8211; it&#8217;s on their shoulders that we stand.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Wilson added: &#8220;It&#8217;s only since the last couple of years when they&#8217;re doing the 60th anniversary of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-303234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114940811922293080","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}