{"id":17125,"date":"2016-09-17T22:05:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T21:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17125"},"modified":"2016-09-17T22:05:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T21:05:42","slug":"35-ock-street-twenty-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17125","title":{"rendered":"35 Ock Street &#8211; Twenty Years On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/160911702.jpg\" alt=\"35 Ock Street\" \/><br \/>\nThere was a party in the carpark of Abingdon Baptist Church this afternoon with a hog roast and balloons. <\/p>\n<p>It followed a special service in the church building where old friends returned to Abingdon to join in celebrating the 20th Anniversary of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abingdonbaptist.org.uk\/ministries\/35-ock-st\/\">35 Ock Street<\/a> &#8211; next door.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/160911704.jpg\" alt=\"35 Ock Street\" \/><br \/>\n35 Ock Street was built as a timber framed house in the early 17th Century, and so is older than those twenty years. <\/p>\n<p>From around 1700 it became the manse where the Baptist Minister lived, with a Georgian facade added towards the end of the 18th Century. <\/p>\n<p>During the late 20th Century, after the Minister moved to a manse elsewhere in Abingdon, 35 Ock Street was scheduled for demolition to create modern offices. But because of its listed building status the old rickety building survived, and after a lot of fundraising it was renovated and re-opened in 1996 as a cafe and community centre serving the town centre .<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/160911701.jpg\" alt=\"35 Ock Street\" \/><br \/>\nTwenty Years On , it still runs as a cafe, and community centre. And today there was free coffee and tea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a party in the carpark of Abingdon Baptist Church this afternoon with a hog roast and balloons. It followed a special service in the church building where old friends returned to Abingdon to join in celebrating the 20th Anniversary of 35 Ock Street &#8211; next door. 35 Ock Street was built as 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":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17125","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=17125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}