{"id":24356,"date":"2020-04-02T13:15:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T12:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24356"},"modified":"2020-04-02T13:15:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T12:15:50","slug":"the-virtual-world-expands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24356","title":{"rendered":"The Virtual World Expands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20040201.jpg\" alt=\"Virtual World\" \/><br \/>\nThe <em>&#8216;Share a Poem&#8217;<\/em> poetry group usually meets at St Ethelwolds on the first Wednesday of the month and they did intend to have the theme of &#8216;<i>Fools and Folly<\/i>&#8216;. The April 1st meeting was cancelled &#8211; as was April&#8217;s Fools Day by common consent. Then some of the group met virtually using Zoom. I could not make it as I was at work but would have liked to have been there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abingdonquakers.org.uk\/cms\/\">The Quakers<\/a>, first Thursday evening of the month meeting at St Ethelwolds, has also decided to use Zoom to bring people together. <\/p>\n<p>I gather that Zoom and Skype and Whatsapp and Facetime are all being used for video calls and meetings. At work I am supporting people with learning disabilities, and they are currently not allowed visits, or their usual range of activities such as: shopping, gym, day centre, craft workshops, church, bingo, pub etc. There are Easy Read guides to help explain what and why this is all happening. Those with iPads can use facetime and there are  laptops with Zoom and Skype for others.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20040101.jpg\" alt=\"Virtual World\" \/><br \/>\nYoutube is being used for live streaming and recordings. Nicky Thornton&nbsp; will be launching her latest book <i>The Cut-Throat Cafe<\/i> on Thursday, April 2nd using a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z5vZuyn2B3U\">youtube live stream&nbsp;<\/a> . It should have happened at Mostly Books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;Share a Poem&#8217; poetry group usually meets at St Ethelwolds on the first Wednesday of the month and they did intend to have the theme of &#8216;Fools and Folly&#8216;. The April 1st meeting was cancelled &#8211; as was April&#8217;s Fools Day by common consent. Then some of the group met virtually using Zoom. 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":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24356","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=24356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}