{"id":25468,"date":"2020-06-16T22:51:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T21:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24885"},"modified":"2020-06-16T22:51:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T21:51:59","slug":"abingdon-town-centre-is-now-half-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25468","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Town Centre is now Half Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dozen or more shops have reopened since Monday.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20061603.jpg\" alt=\"Half Open\" \/><br \/>\nIn Bath Street, they included Masons,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20061602.jpg\" alt=\"Half Open\" \/><br \/>\nClockwork Dragon,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20061601.jpg\" alt=\"Half Open\" \/><br \/>\nand Eileen.<\/p>\n<p>Eileen have a closing down sale that began a few days before the lockdown and is continuing now.<\/p>\n<p>About half the shops in Abingdon town centre are now open. Most of the charity shops are still closed. The hairdressing \/ nail businesses are closed. Catering (that are not doing takeaway) are also closed.<\/p>\n<p>Of the bigger clothes shops New Look was open with a welcome back sale. Fat Face, M &#038; Co, and Peacock are still closed. They have started re-opening some stores elsewhere.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20061605.jpg\" alt=\"Half Open\" \/><br \/>\nTraffic at the Ock Street \/ Stratton Way lights was beginning to stretch back to the junction with West St Helen Street at times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dozen or more shops have reopened since Monday. In Bath Street, they included Masons, Clockwork Dragon, and Eileen. Eileen have a closing down sale that began a few days before the lockdown and is continuing now. About half the shops in Abingdon town centre are now open. Most of the charity shops are still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25468","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=25468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}