{"id":25132,"date":"2006-06-09T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/06\/09\/past-and-present-fines\/"},"modified":"2006-06-09T07:25:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-09T07:25:00","slug":"past-and-present-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25132","title":{"rendered":"Past and Present Fines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06060901.jpg\" \/><br \/>Abingdon is blessed in having so many good local historians who write about the town. &#8220;Abingdon &#8211; Past &#038; Present&#8221; by Elizabeth Dury and Judith Thomas &#8211; shows, side-by-side, the same scenes in old Abingdon and in new Abingdon.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06060902.jpg\" \/><br \/>To emulate the book, in my rather slap-dash way, I took this photograph on a lay-by outside Abingdon, going towards Drayton, of a fairly old road sign. It cannot be that old though because Abingdon has only been in Oxfordshire since 1974. But it got the sepia effect.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06060903.jpg\" \/><br \/>Next, I crossed over the road, and took this picture in the Abingdon-bound lay-by opposite. The fines have gone up. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06060904.jpg\" \/><br \/>Close by people have been filmed and prosecuted for fly tipping. In this case the fines can get quite hefty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abingdon is blessed in having so many good local historians who write about the town. &#8220;Abingdon &#8211; Past &#038; Present&#8221; by Elizabeth Dury and Judith Thomas &#8211; shows, side-by-side, the same scenes in old Abingdon and in new Abingdon.To emulate the book, in my rather slap-dash way, I took this photograph on a lay-by outside [&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-25132","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\/25132","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=25132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}