{"id":25237,"date":"2006-08-25T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/08\/25\/m-and-a\/"},"modified":"2006-08-25T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-25T01:00:00","slug":"m-and-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25237","title":{"rendered":"M and A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/amrickman.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/amrickman.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>These smiling people recently arrived back in Abingdon after two years working as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vso.org.uk\/\">VSO<\/a> volunteers in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Gambia\">Gambia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of their escapades got into our newspapers a year ago: <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.oxfordmail.net\/2005\/7\/12\/87134.html\">Townsfolk chip in to buy African artificial limb<\/a>.  The limb was supplied by an Abingdon company in Nuffield Way called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opcare.co.uk\/\">Opcare<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But M and A may not be quite ready to settle back to life in Abingdon. They have applied again to VSO  to do two more years. So very soon they are likely to be leaving Abingdon to work in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambodia.org\/\">Cambodia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These smiling people recently arrived back in Abingdon after two years working as VSO volunteers in the Gambia. One of their escapades got into our newspapers a year ago: Townsfolk chip in to buy African artificial limb. The limb was supplied by an Abingdon company in Nuffield Way called Opcare But M and A may [&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-25237","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\/25237","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=25237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}