{"id":15508,"date":"2016-01-16T12:31:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T11:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15508"},"modified":"2016-01-16T12:31:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T11:31:18","slug":"a-cold-and-picturesque-start-to-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15508","title":{"rendered":"A Cold and Picturesque Start to Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16011615.jpg\" alt=\"Cold Start\" \/><br \/>\nThe temperatures have been below freezing for the last three nights, and this morning there was a frost on pavements and roofs. This picture shows Long Alley Almshouses, built in 1446-17 by the Fraternity of the Holy Cross. It is now maintained by its successor, Christ&#8217;s Hospital of Abingdon &#8211; established in 1553.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16011612.jpg\" alt=\"Cold Start\" \/><br \/>\nCatching up after the Christmas and New Year breaks, the recycling lorry was out collecting recyclables from the large green wheelie bins, and food waste from the little green bins. Another lorry was collecting Christmas trees and compost from people who have brown wheelie bins.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16011605.jpg\" alt=\"Cold Start\" \/><br \/>\nNear Abingdon Marina, the view across the River Thames shows three of the six large cooling towers at Didcot A Power Station. The first three were blown down in July 2014, and the other three will be blown down later this year.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16011609.jpg\" alt=\"Cold Start\" \/><br \/>\nThere was a layer of ice near the slipway at the Marina.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16011610.jpg\" alt=\"Cold Start\" \/><br \/>\nand large puddles were iced over,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16011617.jpg\" alt=\"Cold Start\" \/><br \/>\nas was the water where the boats are moored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The temperatures have been below freezing for the last three nights, and this morning there was a frost on pavements and roofs. This picture shows Long Alley Almshouses, built in 1446-17 by the Fraternity of the Holy Cross. It is now maintained by its successor, Christ&#8217;s Hospital of Abingdon &#8211; established in 1553. Catching up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15508","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=15508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}