{"id":25134,"date":"2006-06-06T05:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-06T05:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/06\/06\/market-place-car-park\/"},"modified":"2006-06-06T05:06:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-06T05:06:00","slug":"market-place-car-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25134","title":{"rendered":"Market Place Car Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06060701.jpg\" \/><br \/>Located on Bridge Street, E &#038; R GOFF is one of a number of newsagents in the town centre. Its main selling point is that it is open seven days a week, and is convenient for the river. Although floor space can get a little cramped and crowded.<\/p>\n<p>As well as selling newspapers and sweets and a few groceries, lottery tickets and postcards, it has a photocopier, and sells fishing supplies and licences. The window display one side is aimed at children&#8217;s pocket money: toy cars, water pistols, and jewellery.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06060701.jpg\" \/><br \/>During the summer months it also has an ice cream and lollipop freezer, and a Slush Puppie crushed ice drinks machine outside on the pavement.<\/p>\n<p>Curious that it has such a large and permanent advert for the Daily Mail. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/\">Daily Mail<\/a> is a national tabloid which runs the Ideal Home Exhibition and has done since 1908. It has regular articles on property prices. Todays headline is &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Hundreds of Foreign Convicts to stay in UK<\/span>.&#8221; The Mail do not take kindly to asylum seekers, or the European Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Located on Bridge Street, E &#038; R GOFF is one of a number of newsagents in the town centre. Its main selling point is that it is open seven days a week, and is convenient for the river. Although floor space can get a little cramped and crowded. As well as selling newspapers and sweets [&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-25134","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\/25134","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=25134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}