{"id":22937,"date":"2019-08-02T22:58:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T21:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22937"},"modified":"2019-08-02T22:58:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T21:58:22","slug":"underpass-mural-has-been-cleaned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22937","title":{"rendered":"Underpass mural has been cleaned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19080201.jpg\" alt=\"Underpass mural\" \/><br \/>\nEarlier this year there was graffiti on the Abingdon underpass mural which has now all been cleaned away or touched up. <\/p>\n<p>Behind&nbsp;Henry VIII is Thomas Pentecost, the last Abbot of Abingdon, who&nbsp;with his twenty-four monks received pensions after surrendering the Abbey to the King. Unlike the Abbot of Reading who was imprisoned and executed for not being so obliging &#8211; who became a martyr.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19080203.jpg\" alt=\"Underpass mural\" \/><br \/>\nFacing them through the tunnel is the cleaned up St Edmund of Abingdon, and a picture of The Egyptian Vase coming to this town. I cannot remember what that story was all about.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19080202.jpg\" alt=\"Underpass mural\" \/><br \/>\nThe mural starts with pre-history, runs down one wall, and then back along the other. <\/p>\n<p>It end in modern times with mummers, morris dancing, and town crying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year there was graffiti on the Abingdon underpass mural which has now all been cleaned away or touched up. Behind&nbsp;Henry VIII is Thomas Pentecost, the last Abbot of Abingdon, who&nbsp;with his twenty-four monks received pensions after surrendering the Abbey to the King. Unlike the Abbot of Reading who was imprisoned and executed for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22937","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=22937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}