{"id":15428,"date":"2016-01-01T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T23:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15428"},"modified":"2016-01-01T00:01:14","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T23:01:14","slug":"happy-new-year-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15428","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Happy New Year 2016\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15123107.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIn 1957 Abingdon Borough Council decided to close the upstairs Council Chamber and Abbey Room because there was no secondary access &#8211; in case of fire.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Happy New Year 2016\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15123106.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIt re-opened later in the year after an iron staircase had been added. A stone stairwell then replaced that temporary structure. <\/p>\n<p>The new plans for the re-development of the Guildhall have been agreed. Work will be carried out in 2016.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Happy New Year 2016\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15123105.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Information Centre, now accessible from Roysse Court, has plenty of leaflets advertising what&#8217;s on in the New Year of 2016.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Happy New Year 2016\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15123104.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nFor a start, on January 1st is the New Year&#8217;s Day beating the bounds. The Christian Aid New Year walk is also on, starting at 10am from Abingdon Baptist Church. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1957 Abingdon Borough Council decided to close the upstairs Council Chamber and Abbey Room because there was no secondary access &#8211; in case of fire. It re-opened later in the year after an iron staircase had been added. A stone stairwell then replaced that temporary structure. The new plans for the re-development of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15428","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=15428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}