{"id":24985,"date":"2006-01-16T20:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/01\/16\/the-co-op\/"},"modified":"2006-01-16T20:46:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-16T20:46:00","slug":"the-co-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24985","title":{"rendered":"The Co-op"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06011601.jpg\" \/><br \/>The building of the new Co-op has come to a halt.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Co-op unveiled a wonderful new space age design for their new store. Lovely shiney curved front. A lot of local people didn&#8217;t like it much and put up a fight to get the design changed. But the Co-op pressed on. They pulled the old store down, and started on the foundations.<\/p>\n<p>For three months it has looked like the picture, just waiting for somebody to add the shiney top.<\/p>\n<p>However, bigger things are happening. The Oxford and Swindon Cooperative Society has merged with other Cooperative Societies to form the Mid Counties Co-op. And work has come stopped whule they do a gigantic stock take.<\/p>\n<p>The only notice says &#8220;Private Property &#8211; Keep Out!&#8221; instead of &#8220;We apologise for the Inconvenience&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The building of the new Co-op has come to a halt. Last year, the Co-op unveiled a wonderful new space age design for their new store. Lovely shiney curved front. A lot of local people didn&#8217;t like it much and put up a fight to get the design changed. But the Co-op pressed on. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24985","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=24985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}