{"id":23539,"date":"2019-11-12T14:06:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T13:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23539"},"modified":"2019-11-12T14:06:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T13:06:02","slug":"simons-news-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23539","title":{"rendered":"Simon&#8217;s News to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19111201.jpg\" alt=\"Simon's News to close\" \/><br \/>\nSimon&#8217;s News, on East St Helen Street, will be closing down on Saturday 23rd November. Simon says this is partly due to ill health. <\/p>\n<p>The closure is a great shame for Abingdon as Simon&#8217;s News is the last dedicated Newsagent in Central and South Abingdon, after McColl&#8217;s Stores, in Reynold&#8217;s Way, closed last month. I heard that a lot of the paper rounds from Simons and McColls will now transfer to Rowes in Wantage.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19111202.jpg\" alt=\"Simon's News to close\" \/><br \/>\nThere will be a sale for the next couple of weeks. Simon&#8217;s News have a wide variety of traditional sweets in jars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon&#8217;s News, on East St Helen Street, will be closing down on Saturday 23rd November. Simon says this is partly due to ill health. The closure is a great shame for Abingdon as Simon&#8217;s News is the last dedicated Newsagent in Central and South Abingdon, after McColl&#8217;s Stores, in Reynold&#8217;s Way, closed last month. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23539","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=23539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}