{"id":18452,"date":"2017-04-25T22:18:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T21:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18452"},"modified":"2017-04-25T22:18:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T21:18:29","slug":"not-all-the-machines-are-ready-for-the-new-1-coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18452","title":{"rendered":"Not ready for the new \u00a31 coin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17042504.jpg\" alt=\"New Pound Coin\" \/><br \/>\nThanks to the Royal Mint for the new \u00a31 coin. With the old \u00a31 coin there was often the worry it could be a fake. <\/p>\n<p>In Abingdon it was a couple of weeks, after the introduction, until we got any of the new coins.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17042503.jpg\" alt=\"New Pound Coin\" \/><br \/>\nNot all the machines are ready in time. The leader of the Vale of White Horse District Council was seen in front of one of the parking machines saying that it would not take the new coin yet.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17042501.jpg\" alt=\"New Pound Coin\" \/><br \/>\nTesco took the decision to unlock all their trolleys until they could be adapted to the new coin. I did see one trolley in the River Ock. There must have been more.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17042502.jpg\" alt=\"New Pound Coin\" \/><br \/>\nNow a notice says <em>&#8220;&#8230; due to trolleys being abandoned around the town and in the river, they will now be locked back up to protect the local area and environment. The trolleys accept old style \u00a31 coins or trolley tokens &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the Royal Mint for the new \u00a31 coin. With the old \u00a31 coin there was often the worry it could be a fake. In Abingdon it was a couple of weeks, after the introduction, until we got any of the new coins. Not all the machines are ready in time. The leader of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-river-ock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18452","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=18452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}