{"id":25838,"date":"2020-08-13T20:36:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T20:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25838"},"modified":"2020-08-13T20:36:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T20:36:46","slug":"outdoor-pools-in-oxfordshire-stay-closed-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25838","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor Pools in Oxfordshire stay closed in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20081301.jpg\" alt=\"Open Air Pool Staying Closed\" \/><br \/>\nThe outdoor pool in Abingdon has stayed closed this year. The Covid-19 pandemic has shortened the outdoor season and only the indoor pool in Abingdon has reopened now that leisure centres have been allowed to reopen.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20081302.jpg\" alt=\"adjoining alley\" \/><br \/>\nI met Paul Gustafson in town today and he said that other places have managed to open their outdoor pools. Why not Oxfordshire?<\/p>\n<p>The Abingdon outdoor pool is on the banks of the River Thames and Paul said the river is not a safe or clean place to swim. He said that people are using the river in ignorance, and putting their health at risk. Weil&#8217;s disease, spread by rat urine in the water, can destroy a person&#8217;s health. Boats are finding it difficult to reach places to empty their toilets properly this year, and more human effluent can be seen in the River.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The outdoor pool in Abingdon has stayed closed this year. The Covid-19 pandemic has shortened the outdoor season and only the indoor pool in Abingdon has reopened now that leisure centres have been allowed to reopen. I met Paul Gustafson in town today and he said that other places have managed to open their outdoor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25838","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=25838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}