{"id":27086,"date":"2021-04-12T12:05:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T11:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27086"},"modified":"2021-04-12T12:05:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T11:05:32","slug":"lockdown-restrictions-eased-mid-spring-snow-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27086","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown restrictions eased in a mid-Spring snow fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21041211.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nJust before 9 am this morning some barbers were already busy. Queues had formed outside those yet to re-open.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21041203.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nPubs with gardens, like the Nags Head, were all prepared and have been taking bookings.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21041210.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nPubs, non-essential shops, hairdressers, indoor gyms, and nail salons can all re-open from today under the easing of Covid lockdown restrictions.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21041217.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSnow had been forecast but it was still a surprise to see it mid-April.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21041208.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nFlowers and plants huddled down to keep warm until the snow melted.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21041219.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Monday Market had all the stalls back again for the first time this year.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. By noon, the sun was shining and the snow had melted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before 9 am this morning some barbers were already busy. Queues had formed outside those yet to re-open. Pubs with gardens, like the Nags Head, were all prepared and have been taking bookings. Pubs, non-essential shops, hairdressers, indoor gyms, and nail salons can all re-open from today under the easing of Covid lockdown restrictions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pandemic","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27086","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=27086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}