{"id":31603,"date":"2023-12-03T23:25:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T22:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31603"},"modified":"2023-12-03T23:25:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T22:25:43","slug":"closing-down-but-not-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31603","title":{"rendered":"Closing Down but not forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023120301.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSpruce Dry Cleaning, an Abingdon institution for 30 years, closed its doors on November 30th 2023 and has &#8216;Closing Down&#8217; signs in the window. However, the outgoing message on Google suggests this will not be forever. &#8216;Spruce will open again under new management at some stage in the future,&#8217; the message reads. &#8216;In the meantime, we&#8217;d like to thank all of you for using Spruce over the years, and we wish you well in the future!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Dry cleaning isn&#8217;t as dry as the name implies. Water was avoided to prevent fabric damage, and a liquid solvent was used. But nowadays, a range of different techniques are available, including a dry cleaning system that uses water (ref 1).<\/p>\n<p>ref 1: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingdonut.co.uk\/market-research\/sector-trends\/dry-cleaner-sector-trends\">https:\/\/www.marketingdonut.co.uk\/market-research\/sector-trends\/dry-cleaner-sector-trends<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spruce Dry Cleaning, an Abingdon institution for 30 years, closed its doors on November 30th 2023 and has &#8216;Closing Down&#8217; signs in the window. However, the outgoing message on Google suggests this will not be forever. &#8216;Spruce will open again under new management at some stage in the future,&#8217; the message reads. &#8216;In the meantime, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31603","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=31603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}