{"id":28248,"date":"2021-11-23T23:13:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T22:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28248"},"modified":"2021-11-23T23:13:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T22:13:36","slug":"what-the-abingdon-roundabout-monk-has-not-been-thinking-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28248","title":{"rendered":"What the Abingdon Roundabout Monk has not been thinking today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021112301.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe monk on the roundabout was looking thoughtful today but I suspect no sights or thoughts pass through that wooden head<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021112302.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nHe will not have seen that petrol prices are higher than they have ever been, and think they could be higher tomorrow.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021112303.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nHe will not have seen the larger visual display units on the bus stops in Abingdon, and think they used to be half that size.<\/p>\n<p>He will not be\u00a0 thinking about Black Friday on Friday, 26th November, and how it might be a good time to buy a 50 inch ultra HD TV so that he can watch something other than traffic. He\u00a0 could have caught up on such Monkish Classics on BBC iPlayer as Brotherhood: The Inner Life of Monks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The monk on the roundabout was looking thoughtful today but I suspect no sights or thoughts pass through that wooden head He will not have seen that petrol prices are higher than they have ever been, and think they could be higher tomorrow. He will not have seen the larger visual display units on the [&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-28248","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\/28248","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=28248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}