{"id":29399,"date":"2022-07-25T22:49:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T21:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=29399"},"modified":"2022-07-25T22:49:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T21:49:07","slug":"outdoor-pool-opened-today-for-six-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=29399","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor Pool opened today for six weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022072505.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abbey Meadow Outdoor Pool opened today for six weeks. The pool normally opens in May but due to the increased cost of heating the pool (*) the council took the decision to reduce the season to what should be the most popular time, the summer holidays.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022072504.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe timetable of hours can be seen at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.better.org.uk\/leisure-centre\/vale-of-white-horse\/abbey-meadows-outdoor-pool\/timetable\">https:\/\/www.better.org.uk\/leisure-centre\/vale-of-white-horse\/abbey-meadows-outdoor-pool\/timetable<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Prices are up on last year but annual inflation generally is running at over 9%. <\/p>\n<p>Adult is \u00a35.35 (\u00a34.90 in 2021)<br \/>\nChild is \u00a33.30 (\u00a33.10  in 2021)<br \/>\n1 Adult and 1 or 2 Under 3&#8217;s is \u00a35.35<\/p>\n<p>* A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk\/leisure\/abbey-meadow-outdoor-pools-future-secured-for-many-more-summers-of-fun\/\">VWHDC press release<\/a> said heating costs for the pool were expected to be around \u00a3107,000, compared to \u00a347,000 in previous seasons. Presumably that is for a full season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abbey Meadow Outdoor Pool opened today for six weeks. The pool normally opens in May but due to the increased cost of heating the pool (*) the council took the decision to reduce the season to what should be the most popular time, the summer holidays. The timetable of hours can be seen at [&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-29399","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\/29399","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=29399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}