{"id":21154,"date":"2018-09-11T19:45:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T18:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21154"},"modified":"2018-09-11T19:45:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T18:45:21","slug":"oldest-dog-sign-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21154","title":{"rendered":"Oldest Dog Sign in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18091001.jpg\" alt=\"Oldest Dog Sign in Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nIn 1956 a clause was added to the British Road Traffic Bill so that owners of dogs&nbsp; allowed on a &#8216;designated road&#8217; without a lead would be liable to a fine of up to \u00a35. This sign, near the entrance of Sydenhams, shows that Ock Street in Abingdon was such a &#8216;designated road&#8217;. It must be the oldest dog sign in Abingdon and dates from before the Borough ceased to exist in 1974. Unless you know better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1956 a clause was added to the British Road Traffic Bill so that owners of dogs&nbsp; allowed on a &#8216;designated road&#8217; without a lead would be liable to a fine of up to \u00a35. This sign, near the entrance of Sydenhams, shows that Ock Street in Abingdon was such a &#8216;designated road&#8217;. It must [&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-21154","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\/21154","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=21154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}