{"id":18408,"date":"2017-04-19T22:49:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T21:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18408"},"modified":"2017-04-19T22:49:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T21:49:42","slug":"another-abingdon-connection-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18408","title":{"rendered":"Another Abingdon Connection in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15060201.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Connection\" \/><br \/>\nAbout 2 years ago I reported that Spike Abbott had moved from Abingdon to become the newest member of the Body of Yeoman Warders at HM Tower of London.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17041901.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Connection\" \/><br \/>\nWhile in London &#8211; quite by chance &#8211; we met Spike at the corner of Drury Lane and Parker Street &#8211; at about 10:30 on Monday evening. <\/p>\n<p>He was in mufti. Previously, Spike was in the RAF for 35 years (corrected from 30), and now guards the crown jewels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 2 years ago I reported that Spike Abbott had moved from Abingdon to become the newest member of the Body of Yeoman Warders at HM Tower of London. While in London &#8211; quite by chance &#8211; we met Spike at the corner of Drury Lane and Parker Street &#8211; at about 10:30 on Monday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coincidence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18408","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=18408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}