{"id":23856,"date":"2020-01-04T23:55:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T22:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23856"},"modified":"2020-01-04T23:55:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T22:55:21","slug":"turning-off-the-christmas-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23856","title":{"rendered":"Turning Off the Christmas Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20010416.jpg\" alt=\"Last of the Christmas Lights\" \/><br \/>\nToday town council staff were recycling Christmas Trees on Abingdon Market Place.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20010407.jpg\" alt=\"Last of the Christmas Lights\" \/><br \/>\nThe large Market Place tree usually gets chopped up and recycled on this Saturday. But not this year. It still stands there before the County Hall.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20010409.jpg\" alt=\"Last of the Christmas Lights\" \/><br \/>\nThe Christmas Lights are still on this evening in town. It could be their last night. Or that could be tomorrow.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20010410.jpg\" alt=\"Last of the Christmas Lights\" \/><br \/>\nThe dripping lights along the High Street have been impressive this year.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20010418.jpg\" alt=\"Last of the Christmas Lights\" \/><br \/>\nThere have also been lots of ice cream cone decorations about the town centre.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20010405.jpg\" alt=\"Last of the Christmas Lights\" \/><br \/>\nThe Candles on the Market Place have been there for about fifteen years, and should get a longevity award.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20010417.jpg\" alt=\"Last of the Christmas Lights\" \/><br \/>\nBury Street were the first to turn their lights on, and could be the last of the Christmas Lights to be turned off this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today town council staff were recycling Christmas Trees on Abingdon Market Place. The large Market Place tree usually gets chopped up and recycled on this Saturday. But not this year. It still stands there before the County Hall. The Christmas Lights are still on this evening in town. It could be their last night. Or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23856","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=23856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}