{"id":24621,"date":"2020-05-13T22:50:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T22:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24621"},"modified":"2020-05-13T22:50:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T22:50:43","slug":"walk-round-the-park-with-head-in-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24621","title":{"rendered":"Walk round the park with head in clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20051314.jpg\" alt=\"Walk round park head in clouds\" \/><br \/>\nOn today&#8217;s exercise walk, we set off through the Brewery Development in Abingdon where there is a sculpture called Barrel &#8211; seen here darkened against the clouds.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20051313a.jpg\" alt=\"Walk round park head in clouds\" \/><br \/>\nWe walked up Conduit Road &#8211; where the Plane trees are growing back after being pruned last year.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20051304.jpg\" alt=\"Walk round park head in clouds\" \/><br \/>\nThe pavements have been decorated like a school playground in one place.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20051303.jpg\" alt=\"Walk round park head in clouds\" \/><br \/>\nIn Albert Park there are many trees.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20051341.jpg\" alt=\"Walk round park head in clouds\" \/><br \/>\nPrince Albert stands above them all.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20051340.jpg\" alt=\"Walk round park head in clouds\" \/><br \/>\nHe must have noticed a difference in recent weeks. There has been blue sky and clouds but no jet trails.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20051335.jpg\" alt=\"Walk round park head in clouds\" \/><br \/>\nThere have also been fewer cars and no school students. People are not going to church. There are no weddings.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20051332.jpg\" alt=\"Walk round park head in clouds\" \/><br \/>\nNo bells. Everything has slowed down. The economy has gone into recession. <\/p>\n<p>Today was the day when the government started to ease the lockdown rules to restart the economy. People are using the phrase <em>&#8216;the New Normal<\/em>&#8216;  and wondering what the New Normal will be. New Normal was a term that referred to the financial conditions following the 2008 banking crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s exercise walk, we set off through the Brewery Development in Abingdon where there is a sculpture called Barrel &#8211; seen here darkened against the clouds. We walked up Conduit Road &#8211; where the Plane trees are growing back after being pruned last year. The pavements have been decorated like a school playground in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24621","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=24621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}