{"id":20073,"date":"2018-02-20T22:49:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T21:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20073"},"modified":"2018-02-20T22:49:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T21:49:45","slug":"official-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20073","title":{"rendered":"Official Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18022003.jpg\" alt=\"Official Guide\" \/><br \/>\nThe brand new 2018 edition of the Abingdon-on-Thames Official Guide and Map plopped through the door today. It is full of useful information.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18022004.jpg\" alt=\"Official Guide\" \/><br \/>\nOn Saturday I picked up a 1924 town guide from Oxfam. It contained a history of the town, with lots of black and white views of the town, most of which are still easy to recognise. The first few and last few pages were dedicated to adverts.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18022005.jpg\" alt=\"Official Guide\" \/><br \/>\nI would not recognise 131 Ock Street from the picture,with the open display of meat. (\u00a9 William H Hooke. All Rights Reserved).<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-t4zGK_W4Uuk\/WoySu5kETXI\/AAAAAAAAfgw\/uCouH2vxdd0Y2GCIawpvC-3-C5fm1U6uACLcBGAs\/s1600\/18022009.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-t4zGK_W4Uuk\/WoySu5kETXI\/AAAAAAAAfgw\/uCouH2vxdd0Y2GCIawpvC-3-C5fm1U6uACLcBGAs\/s1600\/18022009.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">In recent months the conversion of 131 from a shop front to a house front has been completed.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brand new 2018 edition of the Abingdon-on-Thames Official Guide and Map plopped through the door today. It is full of useful information. On Saturday I picked up a 1924 town guide from Oxfam. It contained a history of the town, with lots of black and white views of the town, most of which are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20073","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=20073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}