{"id":22597,"date":"2019-05-20T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T23:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22597"},"modified":"2019-05-20T00:01:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T23:01:46","slug":"edible-abingdon-and-new-benches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22597","title":{"rendered":"Edible Abingdon and new benches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19051906.jpg\" alt=\"Edible Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nI was walking by the Edible Abingdon garden in the Abbey Gardens at lunchtime.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19051907.jpg\" alt=\"Edible Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nA blackbird came close when I sat on a bench for a moment &#8211; much closer than I would expect. He flew up to the back of the bench before flying back up to his perch. He may have mistaken me for somebody who feeds him.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19051904.jpg\" alt=\"Edible Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nIn the Edible Abingdon patch, the chard looked good with the wavy yellow stems.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19051905.jpg\" alt=\"Edible Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nThe purple headed chives also looked good with the yellow herbs behind.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19051908.jpg\" alt=\"Edible Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nDown near the other edible Abingdon garden patch, by the open air pool, there were a lot of geese cropping the grass among the daisies. There are two new benches, one dedicated to Alan Bryden (who found peace in nature), and another to David and Janet Morgan (who loved to walk by the river).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking by the Edible Abingdon garden in the Abbey Gardens at lunchtime. A blackbird came close when I sat on a bench for a moment &#8211; much closer than I would expect. He flew up to the back of the bench before flying back up to his perch. He may have mistaken me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22597","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=22597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}