{"id":25345,"date":"2006-12-07T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/12\/07\/walkabout-to-close\/"},"modified":"2006-12-07T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T22:14:00","slug":"walkabout-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25345","title":{"rendered":"Walkabout to Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RXl0NyCec8I\/AAAAAAAAAGw\/lmiqZtjIk3Q\/s1600-h\/071206wab0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RXl0NyCec8I\/AAAAAAAAAGw\/lmiqZtjIk3Q\/s320\/071206wab0.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006160240918295490\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>In the shadow of the market hall, at the top of East St Helens Street, are the Punchbowl pub, and the Walkabout shop. Walkabout sells outdoor clothes and equipment. They currently have a sale on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RXl0NyCec-I\/AAAAAAAAAHA\/B0-wa2A_He4\/s1600-h\/071206wab2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RXl0NyCec-I\/AAAAAAAAAHA\/B0-wa2A_He4\/s320\/071206wab2.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006160240918295522\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>There ought to be plenty of bargains because it is a closing down sale (shame!) and everything must go.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RXl0NyCec9I\/AAAAAAAAAG4\/QCfFjP_BpZ4\/s1600-h\/071206wab1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RXl0NyCec9I\/AAAAAAAAAG4\/QCfFjP_BpZ4\/s320\/071206wab1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006160240918295506\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Nearby, the Red Cross shop has just closed and everything has gone. There was an estate agent in there taking pictures.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RXl0OCCec_I\/AAAAAAAAAHI\/hKk2F578oCQ\/s1600-h\/071206wab4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RXl0OCCec_I\/AAAAAAAAAHI\/hKk2F578oCQ\/s320\/071206wab4.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006160245213262834\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>But at a talk about such matters in the Busy Bee newsagent one person said, &#8220;If a charity shop cannot survive, things are bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the shadow of the market hall, at the top of East St Helens Street, are the Punchbowl pub, and the Walkabout shop. Walkabout sells outdoor clothes and equipment. They currently have a sale on. There ought to be plenty of bargains because it is a closing down sale (shame!) and everything must go.Nearby, the [&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-25345","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\/25345","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=25345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}