{"id":23883,"date":"2020-01-09T13:36:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T12:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23883"},"modified":"2020-01-09T13:36:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T12:36:49","slug":"lovely-little-town-lots-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23883","title":{"rendered":"Lovely little town. Lots to See."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20010901.jpg\" alt=\"Lovely little town. Lots to See\" \/><br \/>\nBrowsing the visitors book in Abingdon County Hall Museum there were a number of comments written in characters that appear to be from Asia.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.internetworldstats.com\/stats8.htm\">estimated population<\/a> of China was 1,420,062,022. India was 1,368,737,513. India will soon overtake China. Both are about 20 times more populous than the UK.<\/p>\n<p>One comment in the book has been translated <i>&#8220;Lovely little town. Lots to See&#8221;.<\/i><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20010903.jpg\" alt=\"Lovely little town. Lots to See\" \/><br \/>\nMG is now owned by a Chinese Company and so the MG exhibits could be of interest.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20010902.jpg\" alt=\"Lovely little town. Lots to See\" \/><br \/>\nThere is a rich history of wood carving in China and India so visitors could be interested in the carved mirror.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20010904.jpg\" alt=\"Lovely little town. Lots to See\" \/><br \/>\nThe building itself and the painted staircase are very striking to any visitor. There will be a new temporary exhibition from 11th January called Mr Hemmings Hat &#038; Other Curiosities &#8211; celebrating 100 years of Abingdon museum&#8217;s collections. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Browsing the visitors book in Abingdon County Hall Museum there were a number of comments written in characters that appear to be from Asia. In 2019 the estimated population of China was 1,420,062,022. India was 1,368,737,513. India will soon overtake China. Both are about 20 times more populous than the UK. One comment in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23883","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=23883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}