{"id":24102,"date":"2020-02-15T00:13:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T23:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24102"},"modified":"2020-02-15T00:13:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T23:13:34","slug":"talking-maps-and-the-big-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24102","title":{"rendered":"Talking Maps and The Big Fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two upcoming events that may be of interest are Talking Maps and The Big Fix<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20021405.jpg\" alt=\"Talking Maps\" \/><br \/>\nUpstairs in Abingdon Library, there is a showcase, and board, displaying old maps of Abingdon. One of the maps has all the buildings coloured a pretty pink.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20021407.jpg\" alt=\"Talking Maps\" \/><br \/>\nNext Thursday the Oxfordshire History Centre and the Bodleian Library will be showcasing maps from their archives.<\/p>\n<p><i>Talking Maps is a celebration of maps and what they tell us about the places they depict and the people that make and use them.<\/i><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20021201.jpg\" alt=\"Talking Maps\" \/><br \/>\nThe Big Fix 2020, repair cafe, is before then, this Saturday.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20021408.jpg\" alt=\"Talking Maps\" \/><br \/>\nYou will find it in one of the Northcott barns. (This map is from a book of Berkshire by John Rocque and from 1761- the year of the Coronation of King George III and Abingdon&#8217;s first recorded <a href=\"https:\/\/abingdon.gov.uk\/civic-life-council-events\/bun-throwing\">bun throwing<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two upcoming events that may be of interest are Talking Maps and The Big Fix Upstairs in Abingdon Library, there is a showcase, and board, displaying old maps of Abingdon. One of the maps has all the buildings coloured a pretty pink. Next Thursday the Oxfordshire History Centre and the Bodleian Library will be showcasing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24102","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=24102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}