{"id":1055,"date":"2007-08-02T00:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2007\/08\/02\/crystals\/"},"modified":"2007-08-02T00:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T00:06:00","slug":"crystals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=1055","title":{"rendered":"Crystals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07080202.jpg\" \/><br \/>Before going away last Friday, we were several tent pegs short, and I went to our local outdoor shop to try to find some. Unfortunately they had just sold their last two lots.<\/p>\n<p>On the way back home I passed Crystals, the shop in Lombard Street.<\/p>\n<p>Steve, the manager,  came out of the shop and said, &#8220;Do you still need the tent pegs?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What???&#8221;  I couldn&#8217;t remember telling him we needed tent pegs.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Steve left to find some tent pegs from his flat nearby.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07080201.jpg\" \/><br \/>There was a simple explanation: my wife had told Steve we needed tent pegs.<\/p>\n<p>(Moral of the story: It can seem like magic when somebody unexpectedly helps you.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before going away last Friday, we were several tent pegs short, and I went to our local outdoor shop to try to find some. Unfortunately they had just sold their last two lots. On the way back home I passed Crystals, the shop in Lombard Street. Steve, the manager, came out of the shop and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}