{"id":11514,"date":"2014-05-24T13:21:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T12:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11514"},"modified":"2014-05-24T13:21:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T12:21:50","slug":"opening-the-abbey-meadows-open-air-pool-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11514","title":{"rendered":"Opening the Abbey Meadows Outdoor Pools with a splash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Thanks to Lesley for the first 3 pictures and Peter for the last 2)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14052416.jpg\" alt=\"Opening the Abbey Meadows Open Air Pool\" \/><br \/>\nThe Town Crier, Mr Peter Green, Officially Opening the Open Air Pool at 10am this morning &#8211; in the rain.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14052406.jpg\" alt=\"Opening the Abbey Meadows Open Air Pool\" \/><br \/>\nThe popularity of the pool is very much dependent on weather, and the warmth of the water, and the Friends of Abingdon Outdoor Pool are keen to see the pool well used this year, and a few of them were there to open the season with a splash.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14052401.jpg\" alt=\"Opening the Abbey Meadows Open Air Pool\" \/><br \/>\nThe Friends are running a competition on their website to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abingdonoutdoorpool.org.uk\/p\/news.html\">win a free season ticket<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14052414.jpg\" alt=\"Opening the Abbey Meadows Open Air Pool\" \/><br \/>\nOne factor in encouraging customers to use the pool is its appearance. With that in mind, the Friends of the Open Air Pool arranged&nbsp; for volunteers, under supervision of the district council, to give it a make-over before the opening. The Mayor of Abingdon on Thames has already been featured by local press as taking part. Also worthy of note is that our local MP, Nicola Blackwood, did a stint.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14052415.jpg\" alt=\"Opening the Abbey Meadows Open Air Pool\" \/><br \/>\nAs did Layla Moran, the local Lib-Dem Parliamentary Candidate in 2015. Waitrose provided refreshments.<\/p>\n<p><b>Pool Open:<\/b><br \/>\n<b>24th May \u2013 1st September 2014<\/b><br \/>\n<b>10am \u2013 6pm Monday to Sunday<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Timetable and Prices<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abingdonoutdoorpool.org.uk\/p\/news.html\">Competition to Win Season Ticket and bid for signed front page of Oxfordshire Guardian with volunteers painting pool<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Thanks to Lesley for the first 3 pictures and Peter for the last 2) The Town Crier, Mr Peter Green, Officially Opening the Open Air Pool at 10am this morning &#8211; in the rain. The popularity of the pool is very much dependent on weather, and the warmth of the water, and the Friends of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11514","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=11514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}