{"id":12457,"date":"2014-10-04T14:03:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T13:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12457"},"modified":"2014-10-04T14:03:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T13:03:21","slug":"guide-dogs-out-in-number-despite-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12457","title":{"rendered":"Guide Dogs out in number, despite the rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14100402.jpg\" alt=\"Guide Dogs Week\" \/><br \/>\nGuide Dogs Week is the annual fundraising, awareness building week which runs from 4 to 12 October.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14100401.jpg\" alt=\"Guide Dogs Week\" \/><br \/>\nGuide Dogs were out in number this morning in Abingdon Town Centre, despite the rain. The one on the left was injured a couple of days ago by a bicycle on a shared walkway. Such accidents are becoming more common, and the owners wanted people to be aware that cycles are not always heard until it is too late.<\/p>\n<p>Also there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guidedogs.org.uk\/news\/2014\/october\/9914-ask-the-government-to-get-on-board-with-talking-buses\">campaign to get talking buses<\/a>, ones that announce the stops, so that visually impaired people don&#8217;t miss their stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guide Dogs Week is the annual fundraising, awareness building week which runs from 4 to 12 October. Guide Dogs were out in number this morning in Abingdon Town Centre, despite the rain. The one on the left was injured a couple of days ago by a bicycle on a shared walkway. Such accidents are becoming [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457","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=12457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}