{"id":25013,"date":"2006-02-06T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/02\/06\/the-abbott-of-abingdon\/"},"modified":"2006-02-06T19:57:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T19:57:00","slug":"the-abbott-of-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25013","title":{"rendered":"The Abbott of Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06020603.jpg\" \/><br \/>The traffic islands of Abingdon have been transformed in recent years. This is due to Abingdon wanting to do well in the annual &#8220;Britain in Bloom&#8221; competition. We enter every year in the Thames and Chiltern large Town category. Last year we were joint winners with Bicester (pronounced bister).<\/p>\n<p>The Abbott of Abingdon is the result of the Abbey Press sponsoring the traffic island near Tesco for one years &#8220;Britain in Bloom. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>You can see that currently he has a belt of tinzel. During the Christmas festivities somebody dressed him up amd the tinzel still remains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The traffic islands of Abingdon have been transformed in recent years. This is due to Abingdon wanting to do well in the annual &#8220;Britain in Bloom&#8221; competition. We enter every year in the Thames and Chiltern large Town category. Last year we were joint winners with Bicester (pronounced bister). The Abbott of Abingdon is the [&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-25013","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\/25013","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=25013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}