{"id":1173,"date":"2007-03-01T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2007\/03\/01\/the-smoking-ban-is-coming\/"},"modified":"2007-03-01T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T15:00:00","slug":"the-smoking-ban-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=1173","title":{"rendered":"The Smoking ban is coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07030504.jpg\" \/><br \/>The smoking ban is coming in July and The Grapes in Ock Street have declared themselves the first non-smoking venue in Abingdon. In Scotland where this has happened already, it has hit the Bingo business harder than most bars and restaurants. About 50% of Bingo players smoke, and the number of people going to Bingo has dropped off by about 15%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smoking ban is coming in July and The Grapes in Ock Street have declared themselves the first non-smoking venue in Abingdon. In Scotland where this has happened already, it has hit the Bingo business harder than most bars and restaurants. About 50% of Bingo players smoke, and the number of people going to Bingo [&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-1173","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\/1173","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=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}