{"id":288,"date":"2010-05-18T00:49:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T23:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=288"},"modified":"2010-05-18T00:49:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T23:49:07","slug":"albert-park-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"Albert Park Seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A month or so ago there was a letter to the Abingdon Herald&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Sir, I notice that the last bench bordering the southern path in Albert Park has been removed. This leaves only two in the whole park&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10051605.jpg\" alt=\"Original Seat at Albert Park\" \/><br \/>\nThere was this, the only remaining example of the benches that used to be all round the park&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10051603.jpg\" alt=\"Seat at Albert Park from Steventon Railway Station\" \/><br \/>\nand this one donated from Steventon Railway Station in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>A reply came from Christs Hospital, the Abingdon Charity, that look after the park.<\/p>\n<p><em>For many years the benches have suffered from vandalism and repairs have been carried out&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10051602.jpg\" alt=\"Seat at Albert Park from the Almshouses\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Two metal benches, from our almshouse gardens, have been installed&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But, during the last 12 months in particular, the vandalism has been to such an extent that some benches were beyond repair and so had to be removed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We are looking at purchasing some replacement benches and two local people have offered to fund the purchase of a bench each. Any further donations for this purpose will be most welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month or so ago there was a letter to the Abingdon Herald&#8230; Sir, I notice that the last bench bordering the southern path in Albert Park has been removed. This leaves only two in the whole park&#8230; There was this, the only remaining example of the benches that used to be all round 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":[1],"tags":[190,350],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-albert-park","tag-seats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","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=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}