{"id":20720,"date":"2018-06-22T22:23:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T21:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20720"},"modified":"2018-06-22T22:23:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T21:23:14","slug":"sur-le-pont-dabingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20720","title":{"rendered":"Sur le Pont d&#8217;Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/2018062301.jpg\" alt=\"Sur le Pont dAbingdon\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon Blog is having a few days rest as the blogger has been visiting places in the south of France, including Avignon. Avignon has a famous bridge across the Rh\u00f4ne.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/2018062302.jpg\" alt=\"Sur le Pont dAbingdon\" \/><br \/>\nAt Avignon, the original bridge no longer goes all the way across.It has fallen down and been rebuilt a number of times. The Rh\u00f4ne is a powerful river and during the mini ice age, of medieval times, big blocks of ice came crashing against the spans sending them tumbling into the water.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/2018062303.jpg\" alt=\"Sur le Pont dAbingdon\" \/><br \/>\nThe Avignon bridge is known around the world because of the famous children&#8217;s song,<br \/>\n<em>Sur le pont d&#8217;Avignon,<br \/>\nOn y danse,<br \/>\non y danse,<br \/>\nSur le pont d&#8217;Avignon,<br \/>\nOn y danse,<br \/>\ntous en rond.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There was no dancing today, but a mistral was blowing us all about, and I thought that people taking pictures of each other, or selfies, looked like dancing.<\/p>\n<p>Normal blog service will be resumed as soon as I find my way back from Avignon to Abingdon. Take care. It would be dangerous dancing <em>Sur le Pont d&#8217;Abingdon<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abingdon Blog is having a few days rest as the blogger has been visiting places in the south of France, including Avignon. Avignon has a famous bridge across the Rh\u00f4ne. At Avignon, the original bridge no longer goes all the way across.It has fallen down and been rebuilt a number of times. The Rh\u00f4ne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20720","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=20720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}