{"id":26738,"date":"2021-02-03T20:28:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T20:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26738"},"modified":"2021-02-03T20:28:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T20:28:58","slug":"abingdon-residents-gather-on-doorsteps-to-applaud-captain-sir-tom-moore-and-the-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26738","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Residents gather on doorsteps to applaud Captain Sir Tom Moore and the NHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21020306.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon floods\" \/><br \/>\nPeople in the UK (including Abingdon on Thames) returned to doorsteps at 6pm to applaud a 100-year-old veteran who had raised almost \u00a333m for NHS charities by walking laps of his garden. He died yesterday with Covid-19.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21020301.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon floods\" \/><br \/>\nResidents of West St Helen Street were led by John, whose drum helped to bring out residents who had not heard of the proposed doorstep applause.<\/p>\n<p>John said that he had intended to do one on Thursday at 8pm but then the Prime Minister announced the national applause for Wednesday at 6pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People in the UK (including Abingdon on Thames) returned to doorsteps at 6pm to applaud a 100-year-old veteran who had raised almost \u00a333m for NHS charities by walking laps of his garden. He died yesterday with Covid-19. Residents of West St Helen Street were led by John, whose drum helped to bring out residents who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26738","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=26738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}