{"id":25122,"date":"2006-06-19T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/06\/19\/the-skip\/"},"modified":"2006-06-19T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-19T00:02:00","slug":"the-skip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25122","title":{"rendered":"The Skip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06061901.jpg\" \/><br \/>This skip near Twickenham House down East St Helens Street reminded me of the poem by James Fenton.<\/p>\n<p>(For anybody from the the States a &#8220;Skip&#8221; is a &#8220;dumpster&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">I took my life and threw it on the skip,<br \/>Reckoning the next-door neighbors wouldn&#8217;t mind<br \/>If my life hitched a lift to the council tip<br \/>With their dry rot and rubble. What you find<br \/>With skips is  &#8211; the whole community joins in.<br \/>Old mattresses appear, doors kind of drift<br \/>Along with all that won&#8217;t fit in the bin<br \/>And what the bin-men can&#8217;t be fished to shift&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This skip near Twickenham House down East St Helens Street reminded me of the poem by James Fenton. (For anybody from the the States a &#8220;Skip&#8221; is a &#8220;dumpster&#8221;) I took my life and threw it on the skip,Reckoning the next-door neighbors wouldn&#8217;t mindIf my life hitched a lift to the council tipWith their dry [&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-25122","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\/25122","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=25122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}