{"id":22264,"date":"2019-03-22T00:14:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T23:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22264"},"modified":"2019-03-22T00:14:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T23:14:45","slug":"start-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22264","title":{"rendered":"Start of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spring Equinox can be any date between 19th and 21st March. This year Spring began on the 20th March.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19032103.jpg\" alt=\"Science\" \/><br \/>\nThe daffodils in front of the Abingdon-on-Thames Fire Station have been flowering for most of March. They are called the <em>Field of Hope<\/em> and were planted in 2010. The first bulbs were planted for a former Abingdon Fireman who died of cancer. The others were planted by people remembering others.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19032101.jpg\" alt=\"Science\" \/><br \/>\nThe daffodils on the far bank of the River Thames from Abingdon are at their best at the moment. I don&#8217;t know why they were planted but they keep their crescent shape every year. They are quite early this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spring Equinox can be any date between 19th and 21st March. This year Spring began on the 20th March. The daffodils in front of the Abingdon-on-Thames Fire Station have been flowering for most of March. They are called the Field of Hope and were planted in 2010. The first bulbs were planted for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seasons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22264","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=22264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}