{"id":34496,"date":"2025-10-31T16:21:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T16:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34496"},"modified":"2025-10-31T16:21:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T16:21:24","slug":"halloween-on-blacklands-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34496","title":{"rendered":"Halloween on Blacklands Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025103106.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBlacklands Way, in Abingdon Business Park &#8211; normally a private road of offices and warehouses &#8211; has become an unexpected hotspot of Halloween activity.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025103101.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nDespite the KEEP OUT sign at the entrance, I ventured in.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025103102.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe grass verges have turned into a dance space for some plastic skeletons.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025103103.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBy the duck ponds, somebody has crash-landed into the hedge. <\/p>\n<p>Chalked blackboard gravestones have puns like &#8220;Dee Composing&#8221; and \u201cNOAH SCAPE\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all intended in good humour, though last year when a similar \u2013 if smaller \u2013 display appeared, someone complained about it on FixMyStreet. Not everybody likes Halloween.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blacklands Way, in Abingdon Business Park &#8211; normally a private road of offices and warehouses &#8211; has become an unexpected hotspot of Halloween activity. Despite the KEEP OUT sign at the entrance, I ventured in. The grass verges have turned into a dance space for some plastic skeletons. By the duck ponds, somebody has crash-landed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seasons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34496","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=34496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}