{"id":33620,"date":"2025-04-11T23:15:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T22:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33620"},"modified":"2025-04-11T23:15:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T22:15:48","slug":"cafe-has-reopened-with-new-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33620","title":{"rendered":"Cafe has reopened with new focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/25041101.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Gathering Space opened on March 2nd, occupying the former Lounge Bar premises, which closed after its proprietors retired.<\/p>\n<p>Situated next to The Clockwork Dragon, The Gathering Space is a board games caf\u00e9 offering a dedicated venue for sociable games. The popularity of face-to-face gaming has been growing in recent years, with similar activities seen at Willows Shake and Preston Road Community Centre.<\/p>\n<p>As well as board games, it hosts The Abingdon Sunday Social (10:00 AM \u2013 4:00 PM), a\u00a0 space to meet friends, family, or make new connections.<\/p>\n<p>Craft groups also hold sessions here. For example, on April 17th, there&#8217;s an evening of spring wreath-making.<\/p>\n<p>From May, a regular Whist group will begin there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gathering Space opened on March 2nd, occupying the former Lounge Bar premises, which closed after its proprietors retired. Situated next to The Clockwork Dragon, The Gathering Space is a board games caf\u00e9 offering a dedicated venue for sociable games. The popularity of face-to-face gaming has been growing in recent years, with similar activities seen [&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-33620","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\/33620","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=33620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}