{"id":24731,"date":"2020-05-25T21:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24729"},"modified":"2020-05-25T21:42:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T20:42:00","slug":"bank-holiday-monday-the-new-abnormal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24731","title":{"rendered":"Bank Holiday Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20052514.jpg\" alt=\"Bank Holiday Monday\" \/><br \/>\nOn any other late May Bank Holiday Monday the sunny weather could not have been more perfect.<\/p>\n<p>We went out fairly early for a walk &#8211; before the bank holiday crowds arrived in Abingdon-on-Thames.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20052513.jpg\" alt=\"Bank Holiday Monday\" \/><br \/>\nIn any normal year the Open Air Pool would have been open by this bank holiday weekend and people queuing to get in.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20052516.jpg\" alt=\"Bank Holiday Monday\" \/><br \/>\nAt the weir and elsewhere coloured origami boats had been hung.<\/p>\n<p>A message said <i>Covid-19 has changed our lives. What would people like to carry forward into their lives post lockdown? Write it on a boat!<\/i><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20052517.jpg\" alt=\"Bank Holiday Monday\" \/><br \/>\nThere were some cannoists at the weir but not a lot of surf. On a normal bank holiday people could have stood on the path over the weir to watch them. This year I took a quick picture and hurried across because people might be waiting to come across from the far side.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20052503.jpg\" alt=\"Bank Holiday Monday\" \/><br \/>\nWe saw swans with cygnets like other years.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20052519.jpg\" alt=\"Bank Holiday Monday\" \/><br \/>\nAt Swift Ditch there were balloons.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20052506.jpg\" alt=\"Bank Holiday Monday\" \/><br \/>\nThe lockdown was recently eased by the government. Now we can drive to take our walks and even relax in the sun. Rye Farm car park was filling up as people headed for the sunny wide open spaces near the river banks in Abingdon.<\/p>\n<p>Bank Holiday Motorbikes roared through town, and people watched with their takeaway coffees.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"460\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O1epNLjkQAI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nAnd here is a video of Abingdon late in the evening with a walking talking commentary about night life during the shutdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On any other late May Bank Holiday Monday the sunny weather could not have been more perfect. We went out fairly early for a walk &#8211; before the bank holiday crowds arrived in Abingdon-on-Thames. In any normal year the Open Air Pool would have been open by this bank holiday weekend and people queuing to [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24731","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=24731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}