{"id":34023,"date":"2025-07-25T21:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T20:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34023"},"modified":"2025-07-25T21:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T20:54:09","slug":"graffiti-cleaned-from-historical-mural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34023","title":{"rendered":"Graffiti Cleaned from Historical Mural"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025072504.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe mural in the Stratton Way underpass \u2014 depicting episodes from Abingdon\u2019s history \u2014 has been defaced with black spray paint for some time. Today, the underpass was closed off for cleaning.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025072506.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThis evening the black spray paint had been removed. The mural was re-painted in 2007 with an anti-vandal coating, which helps make graffiti easier to clean off without damaging the artwork beneath.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks are due to the Town Council for arranging the removal. One curiosity remains: a patchy white accretion, like hard foam, still clings to parts of the mural. It\u2019s also been there for a while \u2014 possibly the result of vandalism or another phenomena.<\/p>\n<p>For now, though, the figures of Abingdon\u2019s past are again clearly visible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mural in the Stratton Way underpass \u2014 depicting episodes from Abingdon\u2019s history \u2014 has been defaced with black spray paint for some time. Today, the underpass was closed off for cleaning. This evening the black spray paint had been removed. The mural was re-painted in 2007 with an anti-vandal coating, which helps make graffiti [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34023","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=34023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}