{"id":21092,"date":"2018-08-26T13:35:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T12:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21092"},"modified":"2018-08-26T13:35:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T12:35:32","slug":"dorothy-perkins-in-abingdon-is-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21092","title":{"rendered":"Dorothy Perkins, in Abingdon, is to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18082009.jpg\" alt=\"Dorothy Perkins\" \/><br \/>\nDorothy Perkins, in Abingdon, is to close a month from now and currently have a closing down sale.<\/p>\n<p>The shop in Abingdon is quite small and is packed with rails of women&#8217;s fashion, and some accessories. Staff are very friendly and say there will still be a Dorothy Perkins in Witney and Oxford.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18082009a.jpg\" alt=\"Dorothy Perkins\" \/><br \/>\nHave you ever wondered who was Dorothy Perkins. The chain began life in 1909 as H.P. Newman, and adopted its current name in 1939. It was not named after a real person but after a veteran rambling rose. (Thanks to Georges Seguin (Okki) for the picture of the Dorothy Perkins rose found on wikipedia.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorothy Perkins, in Abingdon, is to close a month from now and currently have a closing down sale. The shop in Abingdon is quite small and is packed with rails of women&#8217;s fashion, and some accessories. Staff are very friendly and say there will still be a Dorothy Perkins in Witney and Oxford. Have you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21092","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=21092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}