{"id":27416,"date":"2021-07-04T09:40:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T08:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27416"},"modified":"2021-07-04T09:40:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T08:40:42","slug":"coming-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27416","title":{"rendered":"Coming Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are pictures taken near the Wootton Road shops in Abingdon earlier in the day &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021070301.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nTopsport has one window with footballs and St George flags, and one window with things that fly, and cricket, and tennis. Wimbledon is also on.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021070302.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nA <del datetime=\"2021-07-04T11:50:11+00:00\">knitted<\/del> crochet post box cover.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021070303.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe old Fitzharrys community rooms- probably a private residence now.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021070305.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIn the town centre, the St George Flag is above the County Hall.<\/p>\n<p>I was on the late shift and the people I help support had made St George flags and stuck them on straws. One suggested I make a flag with 3 lions and the word &#8216;England&#8217;. My flag looked more like three ducks but I waved it as they waved their George crosses during the match. In the end England won 4-0 and are through to their first semi final since this blog was started, in 2006 &#8211; a year of high hopes when England lost 1-3 in the World Cup quarter finals to Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>A young man shouted from an open car window at me, as I cycled home, <em>&#8216;It&#8217;s coming home&#8217;<\/em>. The same phrase <em>&#8216;It&#8217;s coming home&#8217;<\/em>, from the Three Lions song, was being chanted and sung by people going come, via the Back Street, after I got home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are pictures taken near the Wootton Road shops in Abingdon earlier in the day &#8230; Topsport has one window with footballs and St George flags, and one window with things that fly, and cricket, and tennis. Wimbledon is also on. A knitted crochet post box cover. The old Fitzharrys community rooms- probably a private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27416","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=27416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}