{"id":16384,"date":"2016-06-05T19:55:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T18:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=16384"},"modified":"2016-06-05T19:55:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T18:55:28","slug":"abingdon-style-countryfile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=16384","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Style Countryfile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16060410.jpg\" alt=\"Countryfile\" \/><br \/>\nIn the Abbey Meadows there are now two circles where the grass and wild flowers are encouraged to grow. The inner circle is already full of delicate meadow grass and flowers, such as these Ragged Robin.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16060409.jpg\" alt=\"Countryfile\" \/><br \/>\nThe outer circle has thicker grass, and some wild flowers including thistles. Yesterday volunteers were digging  out the thistles to allow other flowers to thrive.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16060502.jpg\" alt=\"Countryfile\" \/><br \/>\nToday was sunny, and over the River Thames, in Rye Farm Meadow, a tractor was turning the grass with the wuffler, or hay spreader.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16060504.jpg\" alt=\"Countryfile\" \/><br \/>\nThere were also lots of people out enjoying the countryside and the River Thames, watching boats at Abingdon Lock, and crossing the white water at Abingdon Weir. The Abbey Meadows play area, round the splash pad, was particularly popular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Abbey Meadows there are now two circles where the grass and wild flowers are encouraged to grow. The inner circle is already full of delicate meadow grass and flowers, such as these Ragged Robin. The outer circle has thicker grass, and some wild flowers including thistles. Yesterday volunteers were digging out the thistles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abbey-grounds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16384","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=16384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}