{"id":25092,"date":"2006-05-08T00:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T00:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/05\/08\/borough\/"},"modified":"2006-05-08T00:43:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-08T00:43:00","slug":"borough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25092","title":{"rendered":"Borough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06050801.jpg\" \/><br \/>Before the local government reorganisation in 1974, Abingdon was a borough &#8211; which meant one local Council &#8211; not three. More local power, and less local confusion.<\/p>\n<p>This garden in Saxton Road has a trophy from those days.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06050802.jpg\" \/><br \/>This drain cover says &#8220;Borough of Abingdon.&#8221; <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06050803.jpg\" \/><br \/>Behind this wysteria you may just about be able to SPY Borough of Abingdon on Thames. It&#8217;s a very faded Broad Street sign.<\/p>\n<p>Nice-to-have-trophies. But those times have gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the local government reorganisation in 1974, Abingdon was a borough &#8211; which meant one local Council &#8211; not three. More local power, and less local confusion. This garden in Saxton Road has a trophy from those days.This drain cover says &#8220;Borough of Abingdon.&#8221; Behind this wysteria you may just about be able to SPY [&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-25092","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\/25092","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=25092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}