{"id":25840,"date":"2020-08-14T22:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T22:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25840"},"modified":"2020-08-14T22:00:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T22:00:56","slug":"street-lights-in-the-oldest-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25840","title":{"rendered":"Street Lights in the oldest town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20081407.jpg\" alt=\"Lights on Earlier\" \/><br \/>\nThe air has cooled down since the thunder and hail storms of Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>I went for an evening walk at 8:20 pm and found some street lights were already on; cars already had their lights on.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20081401.jpg\" alt=\"Lights on Earlier\" \/><br \/>\nAt St Helen&#8217;s Wharf, Plain Trees shade the Victorian-style street lamps, and as a result they are fooled into turning on even earlier.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20081409.jpg\" alt=\"Lights on Earlier\" \/><br \/>\nThankyou to Rachel at BlueDoor (now in Southampton) for sending me a link to a piece called <a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2020\/08\/abingdon-is-proof-that-life-goes-on\">Don\u2019t call Abingdon ordinary<\/a>. It is about Abingdon-on-Thames &#8211; a town that has been continuously inhabited since the Iron Age and has innovated to survive. The article is written by a Historian on a website called <strong>Unherd<\/strong>. Their mission is <em>&#8216;to push back against the herd mentality with new and bold thinking&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11081303.jpg\" alt=\"Chamber of Commerce\" \/><br \/>\nP.S. Greg and Rachel used to run BlueDoor Lettings in Stert Street and were very active in Abingdon town life. They had an amusing blog &#8211; the confessions of a letting agent. Greg was the front man, and is seen here with Mike Moon in 2011 at a local event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The air has cooled down since the thunder and hail storms of Wednesday afternoon. I went for an evening walk at 8:20 pm and found some street lights were already on; cars already had their lights on. At St Helen&#8217;s Wharf, Plain Trees shade the Victorian-style street lamps, and as a result they are fooled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25840","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=25840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}