{"id":15677,"date":"2016-02-17T00:23:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T23:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15677"},"modified":"2016-02-17T00:23:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T23:23:39","slug":"a-magnificent-chestnut-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15677","title":{"rendered":"A Magnificent Chestnut Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16021641.jpg\" alt=\"Chestnut Tree\" \/><br \/>\nTen years ago, there was a magnificent chestnut tree next to the Ladygrove Meadow playpark.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16021619.jpg\" alt=\"Chestnut Tree\" \/><br \/>\nI would guess it was cut down about five years ago. It had started to rot, and the hollow inside was getting bigger. Branches were probably getting dangerous.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16021618.jpg\" alt=\"Chestnut Tree\" \/><br \/>\nPassing that way on Sunday I stopped to look at the clusters of fungus.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16021620.jpg\" alt=\"Chestnut Tree\" \/><br \/>\nand noticed how boring insects had made some areas as soft as Balsa Wood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago, there was a magnificent chestnut tree next to the Ladygrove Meadow playpark. I would guess it was cut down about five years ago. It had started to rot, and the hollow inside was getting bigger. Branches were probably getting dangerous. Passing that way on Sunday I stopped to look at the clusters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15677","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=15677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}