{"id":11522,"date":"2014-05-25T11:41:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T10:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11522"},"modified":"2014-05-25T11:41:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T10:41:41","slug":"wildflower-truck-traffic-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11522","title":{"rendered":"Wildflower \/ Truck Traffic Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14052503.jpg\" alt=\"Wildflower \/ Truck Traffic Island\" \/><br \/>\nThe traffic island near Abingdon Business Park looks rather plain during the winter months, and then the weeds seem to take over, but as May is followed by June the island is transformed with a prolific display of wild flowers.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14052502.jpg\" alt=\"Wildflower \/ Truck Traffic Island\" \/><br \/>\nCorn poppies, ox-eye daisies, and blue cornflowers are particularly abundant. They need minimal maintenance, and make lots of pollen for the butterflies and bees.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14052504.jpg\" alt=\"Wildflower \/ Truck Traffic Island\" \/><br \/>\nJust beside that same roundabout there is a board advertising the <a href=\"http:\/\/truckfestival.com\/\">Truck Festival<\/a>. It is a festival that has been happening for about 15 years.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14052505.jpg\" alt=\"Wildflower \/ Truck Traffic Island\" \/><br \/>\nThe Truck Festival takes place within Hill End Farm, Steventon, about three miles from Abingdon. About 5000 people attend and so it is on a friendlier more manageable scale than some music festivals. Barnival signs have appeared round the countryside to baffle those of us who are not in the know, but I gather it refers to the barn stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The traffic island near Abingdon Business Park looks rather plain during the winter months, and then the weeds seem to take over, but as May is followed by June the island is transformed with a prolific display of wild flowers. Corn poppies, ox-eye daisies, and blue cornflowers are particularly abundant. They need minimal maintenance, 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":[73,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11522","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=11522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}