{"id":27037,"date":"2021-04-05T17:36:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T16:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27037"},"modified":"2021-04-05T17:36:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T16:36:10","slug":"easter-monday-new-willow-flag-half-mast-pom-poms-and-pavement-cleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27037","title":{"rendered":"Easter Monday &#8211; New Willow, Flag Half Mast, Pom-Poms, and Pavement Cleaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21040407.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nHester has send me a picture of the new Willow that has been planted outside the Old Gaol to replace the one that was cut down.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21040411.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOn the County Hall the flag is flying at half-mast.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Vernon Butt, Freeman of Abingdon and Past Mayor, died a year ago. At the time the Town Council were unable to mark his passing by flying the town flag at half-mast and so they are doing so to mark the anniversary of his passing.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/abingdon-news\/abingdon-thames-town-council\/remembrance-dr-vernon-butt-one-year\">here<\/a> for a link to the Town Council&#8217;s news item.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21040409.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe trees on the Market Place, in front of the County Hall, have been decorated with pom-poms and rainbows over Easter.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21040410.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nToday, a section of Bury Street was cordoned off while some workmen gave it a power clean. They were using a machine with a rotating wire buffer and water spray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hester has send me a picture of the new Willow that has been planted outside the Old Gaol to replace the one that was cut down. On the County Hall the flag is flying at half-mast. Dr Vernon Butt, Freeman of Abingdon and Past Mayor, died a year ago. At the time the Town Council [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27037","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=27037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}