{"id":32229,"date":"2024-05-09T22:11:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T21:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32229"},"modified":"2024-05-09T22:11:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T21:11:04","slug":"abingdon-celebrates-twin-towns-and-sister-cities-with-new-signpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32229","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Celebrates Twin Towns and Sister Cities with New Signpost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024050900.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon has unveiled a new signpost outside the Guildhall and council offices in Bridge Street. This signpost points visitors towards the town&#8217;s five twin towns and two sister cities: Abingdon, Virginia (USA) and Thames, New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>The arrows on the signpost not only indicate direction but also display the distance to each location and the national flag of the respective town or city.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024050902.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe formal unveiling ceremony, held on Europe Day (May 9th, 2024), was officiated by Mayor of Abingdon, Councillor Gwyneth Lewis. Plans are underway to install a new notice board near the signpost, providing further information about Abingdon&#8217;s twinning relationships.<\/p>\n<p>The European flag flew over the County Hall during the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abingdon has unveiled a new signpost outside the Guildhall and council offices in Bridge Street. This signpost points visitors towards the town&#8217;s five twin towns and two sister cities: Abingdon, Virginia (USA) and Thames, New Zealand. The arrows on the signpost not only indicate direction but also display the distance to each location and 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":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twinning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32229","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=32229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}