{"id":22474,"date":"2019-04-30T21:45:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T20:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22474"},"modified":"2019-04-30T21:45:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T20:45:15","slug":"a-young-tree-needs-protection-part-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22474","title":{"rendered":"A young tree needs protection &#8211; Part 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2006, when I started doing This Abingdon Blog, one report was about <a href=\"https:\/\/abingdon2006.blogspot.com\/search?q=a+young+tree\">three trees<\/a> that had been planted in town. One got vandalised, one had a bad lean, and one was doing well.<\/p>\n<p>Here they are again some years later&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19043001.jpg\" alt=\" A young tree needs protection\" \/><br \/>\nThe vandalised tree is long gone but another tree, planted nearby, is doing much better. I hope the new generation respect trees more.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19043006.jpg\" alt=\" A young tree needs protection\" \/><br \/>\nThe leaning tree continues to lean and still has a tree guard.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19043007.jpg\" alt=\" A young tree needs protection\" \/><br \/>\nIt also has a band to keep it from leaning any more.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19043004.jpg\" alt=\" A young tree needs protection\" \/><br \/>\nThe third tree is doing well. The tree guard has been removed and lower branches cut. That tree was planted in honour of John Jones OBE &#8211; a former Mayor and Freeman of Abingdon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2006, when I started doing This Abingdon Blog, one report was about three trees that had been planted in town. One got vandalised, one had a bad lean, and one was doing well. Here they are again some years later&#8230; The vandalised tree is long gone but another tree, planted nearby, is doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22474","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=22474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}