{"id":11193,"date":"2014-04-05T09:29:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T08:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11193"},"modified":"2014-04-05T09:29:52","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T08:29:52","slug":"looking-for-a-surprising-winner-at-this-years-big-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11193","title":{"rendered":"This year&#8217;s Grand National and the Abingdon Betting Shops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Crabbie&#8217;s Grand National race will take place today (5th of April) at 4:15 p.m. at Aintree Racecourse, and is one of the high points of the year for Abingdon&#8217;s Betting shops.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14040103.jpg\" alt=\"Grand National\" \/><br \/>\nThe two Ladbrokes in Abingdon (Bath Street and Stert Street) have notices reminding people to &#8220;<em>Gamble Responsibly: Set you own limits and stay in control.<\/em>&#8220;.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14040106.jpg\" alt=\"Grand National\" \/><br \/>\nStan James say &#8220;<em>Get Lucky. Best Odds Guaranteed.<\/em>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14040102.jpg\" alt=\"Grand National\" \/><br \/>\nIn the empty premises next door a notice says that William Hill have applied for a License under the Gambling Act 2005 to trade there, so they could well be competing for the Abingdon trade in next year&#8217;s Grand National.<\/p>\n<p>I  read The Guardian tips for the race which were all quite amusing to read. The last was for <strong>Swing Bill<\/strong> which is not strongly fancied &#8230; &#8220;<i>Has had a couple of stabs at this race and not been good enough. Now he&#8217;s 13 and likely to be slower than ever. Would be a most surprising winner.<\/i>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Crabbie&#8217;s Grand National race will take place today (5th of April) at 4:15 p.m. at Aintree Racecourse, and is one of the high points of the year for Abingdon&#8217;s Betting shops. The two Ladbrokes in Abingdon (Bath Street and Stert Street) have notices reminding people to &#8220;Gamble Responsibly: Set you own limits 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":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11193","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=11193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}