{"id":13931,"date":"2015-05-01T21:59:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T20:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13931"},"modified":"2015-05-01T21:59:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T20:59:51","slug":"community-shop-big-ballot-box-tour-and-abingdon-flower-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13931","title":{"rendered":"Community Shop &#8211; Big Ballot Box Tour and National Flower Arranging Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15050101.jpg\" alt=\"Big Ballot Box Tour\" \/><br \/>\nBBC Radio Oxford were in the Friends of Abingdon Community Shop, in Bury Street, as the final part of their \u201cBig Ballot Box Tour\u201d series.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15050102.jpg\" alt=\"Big Ballot Box Tour\" \/><br \/>\nThey had brought with them a set of Lego figures of the candidates which have been made by a historian in Oxford \u2013 see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/election-2015-england-32531812 \">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/election-2015-england-32531812 <\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15050103.jpg\" alt=\"Big Ballot Box Tour\" \/><br \/>\nFive of the seven candidates for the Oxford West and Abingdon constituency were there.  Those who missed the broadcast can catch up via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p02qf5ks\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p02qf5ks<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to Hester for the pictures.)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15050104.jpg\" alt=\"Big Ballot Box Tour\" \/><br \/>\nOnce the politicians were out, Abingdon Flower Club took over the shop, and were busy arranging flowers as 1st May is National Flower Arranging Day. The displays will be left up in the window over the bank holiday weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Radio Oxford were in the Friends of Abingdon Community Shop, in Bury Street, as the final part of their \u201cBig Ballot Box Tour\u201d series. They had brought with them a set of Lego figures of the candidates which have been made by a historian in Oxford \u2013 see http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/election-2015-england-32531812 Five of the seven candidates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13931","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=13931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}