{"id":1061,"date":"2007-07-24T21:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2007\/07\/24\/left-over-sandbags\/"},"modified":"2007-07-24T21:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T21:22:00","slug":"left-over-sandbags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=1061","title":{"rendered":"Left Over Sandbags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a more relaxed feel. The emergency services are no longer on high alert. The River Thames is still just as high, but it seems predictable now &#8211; not the great unknown.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07072501.jpg\" \/><br \/>The path to the weir has been washed away and cordoned off since yesterday. Here, perhaps, is a use for those left over sandbags.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07072502.jpg\" \/><br \/>The flood has NOT helped Abingdon Town Football Club&#8217;s pitch or floodlight controls, but it has made it a better place to take pictures.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07072503.jpg\" \/><br \/>Abingdon Vale cricket club were having a good season until this happened. Still, I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll bounce back.<\/p>\n<p>But will everybody who has been flooded bounce back so easily? One lady had only just moved back to her former town Abingdon, after loosing her husband. As she sat, as an evacuee, in the Guildhall &#8211; she said &#8216; I may have made a big mistake.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a more relaxed feel. The emergency services are no longer on high alert. The River Thames is still just as high, but it seems predictable now &#8211; not the great unknown.The path to the weir has been washed away and cordoned off since yesterday. Here, perhaps, is a use for those left [&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-1061","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\/1061","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=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}