{"id":16568,"date":"2016-06-27T23:10:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T22:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=16568"},"modified":"2016-06-27T23:10:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T22:10:19","slug":"out-of-europe-twice-in-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=16568","title":{"rendered":"Out of Europe &#8211; twice in a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16062706.jpg\" alt=\"England out\" \/><br \/>\nThe St George Flag has been flown round Abingdon for the last few weeks as England competes in the Euros football tournament.<\/p>\n<p>During the group stages England played well against Russia, Wales, and Slovakia.  <\/p>\n<p>In the knock-out stages England came up against Iceland (population 300,000). England were odds on favorite.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16062704.jpg\" alt=\"England out\" \/><br \/>\nBut this has been a difficult week since the UK voted to exit the EU 4 days ago. Trading in Barclays and RBS shares were suspended this morning following heavy losses on the London Stock Exchange.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16062708.jpg\" alt=\"England out\" \/><br \/>\nEngland lost 2-1 against Iceland. Can you imagine how Iceland&#8217;s Supporters feel? It must be amazing!<\/p>\n<p>But England are now out of the Euros and the EU.<\/p>\n<p>Wales carry our last hopes in the football, and Scotland carry the only hope of remaining in the EU. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St George Flag has been flown round Abingdon for the last few weeks as England competes in the Euros football tournament. During the group stages England played well against Russia, Wales, and Slovakia. In the knock-out stages England came up against Iceland (population 300,000). England were odds on favorite. But this has been a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16568","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=16568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}