{"id":1155,"date":"2007-04-08T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-08T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2007\/04\/08\/almost-like-being-at-the-seaside\/"},"modified":"2007-04-08T19:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-08T19:36:00","slug":"almost-like-being-at-the-seaside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=1155","title":{"rendered":"Almost, Like being at the Seaside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07040806.jpg\" \/><br \/>The ice-cream van was parked near the new millennium needle sculpture.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07040803.jpg\" \/><br \/>The public conveniences were open in the Abbey Meadows, as was the golf kiosk. I even heard somebody expressing disappointment that the open air pool was not open yet.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07040805.jpg\" \/><br \/>It was the sort of day when visiting Abingdon was, almost, like being at the sea-side. People were gazing at the weir..<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07040802.jpg\" \/><br \/>or watching boats cruising through Abingdon Lock.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07040801.jpg\" \/><br \/>This colourful barge, called Lucky, slowly approaches the Lock.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07040804.jpg\" \/><br \/>Harry, my dog, goes to sniff around whenever he comes to a bench with somebody on it. He has learnt that people eat sandwiches and often drop tit-bits.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07040807.jpg\" \/><br \/>This boat has got up speed passing Nags Head island before going under the Bridge, heading downstream towards Culham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ice-cream van was parked near the new millennium needle sculpture.The public conveniences were open in the Abbey Meadows, as was the golf kiosk. I even heard somebody expressing disappointment that the open air pool was not open yet.It was the sort of day when visiting Abingdon was, almost, like being at the sea-side. People [&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-1155","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\/1155","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=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}