{"id":12179,"date":"2014-08-23T14:51:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T13:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12179"},"modified":"2014-08-23T14:51:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T13:51:24","slug":"bath-street-from-art-and-stuff-to-loom-bands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12179","title":{"rendered":"Bath Street: From Art and Stuff to Loom Bands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14082304.jpg\" alt=\"Bath Street\" \/><br \/>\nBath Street is the Abingdon town centre street that missed out on recent refurbishments: whether resulting from ABiTS (Abingdon Integrated Transport Strategy), or the refurbishment of the precinct. I remember Steve King campaigning on his Action4Abingdon forum to also get the Bath Street pavements done, but it did not happen.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14082301.jpg\" alt=\"Bath Street\" \/><br \/>\nThe ABiTS York Stone paving only went as far as The Square, where you can find Art and Stuff, and the very friendly dog Grommet.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14082303.jpg\" alt=\"Bath Street\" \/><br \/>\nRetreat Hairdressing is down Bath Street and has old pavements. <\/p>\n<p>Retreat Hairdressing are adding to Skye&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueskyethinking.org\/loom-to-the-moon\/\">Loom to The Moon<\/a> project which has already received lots of publicity, including: front page of this week&#8217;s Abingdon Herald and a large picture feature in the Daily Mail. <\/p>\n<p>Skye, from Abingdon, is a 4 year old undergoing treatment for an aggressive brain tumor. The treatment involves surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy, and is not easy. So Skye&#8217;s parent have set up a charity to research into better treatment for future children. They are using Skye&#8217;s Brainwave &#8216;a loom to the moon&#8217; to raise funds. Lots of children have been making Loom Bands (the year&#8217;s big craze in schools) by weaving small elastic bands together. The aim is to join them together to reach the distance to the moon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14082302.jpg\" alt=\"Bath Street\" \/><br \/>\nRetreat Hairdressing are hoping to get enough to go up their stairs, via the hand rail, before adding it to the Moon Loom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bath Street is the Abingdon town centre street that missed out on recent refurbishments: whether resulting from ABiTS (Abingdon Integrated Transport Strategy), or the refurbishment of the precinct. I remember Steve King campaigning on his Action4Abingdon forum to also get the Bath Street pavements done, but it did not happen. The ABiTS York Stone paving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity","category-street-scene"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12179","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=12179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}