{"id":23059,"date":"2019-08-22T22:37:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T21:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23059"},"modified":"2019-08-22T22:37:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T21:37:27","slug":"a-very-recognisable-corner-of-the-market-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23059","title":{"rendered":"A very recognisable corner of the Market Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19082302.jpg\" alt=\"Phone Box\" \/><br \/>\nDiana asks if anybody can identify the artist, or maybe even the couple, in this painting of a very recognisable corner of the Market Place. It is the corner where the phone boxes were removed last week! Diana picked it up in a charity shop in town recently and says &#8220;<em>sadly this is just a reproduction that has been trimmed to fit it into the frame so no signature or other identifier.&#8221;<\/em> She is curious to know if it was by a local artist.  She has checked with the museum but they have drawn a blank.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18100503.jpg\" alt=\"Phone Box\" \/><br \/>\nHere is what the telephone boxes looked like. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2017\/aug\/15\/bt-to-scrap-half-of-uks-remaining-phone-boxes-after-usage-falls-90\">According to the Guardian<\/a> &#8220;<em>At their peak there were 92,000 payphones across the UK, and queues in the street were a familiar sight at the busiest ones.<\/em>&#8220;. In 2019 they are almost obsolete. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diana asks if anybody can identify the artist, or maybe even the couple, in this painting of a very recognisable corner of the Market Place. It is the corner where the phone boxes were removed last week! Diana picked it up in a charity shop in town recently and says &#8220;sadly this is just 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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23059","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\/23059","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=23059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}