{"id":34894,"date":"2026-01-21T14:23:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34894"},"modified":"2026-01-21T14:23:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:23:35","slug":"flags-waiting-for-better-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34894","title":{"rendered":"Flags Waiting for Better Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026012101.jpg\" alt=\"Flags Waiting\" \/><br \/>\nThirty-nine flags line the lamp posts of Saxton Road and its side courts &#8211; mostly Union Jacks, with a few St George\u2019s Crosses. Only one lamp post has been missed.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026012103.jpg\" alt=\"Flags Waiting\" \/><br \/>\nToday many of them are wet, clinging to their posts. I could wait for better weather to capture them as I saw them yesterday, when they made a fine display.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026012102.jpg\" alt=\"Flags Waiting\" \/><br \/>\nThere are also the usual flag displays in back gardens, proudly shown along the road. So there are a lot more than thirty nine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-nine flags line the lamp posts of Saxton Road and its side courts &#8211; mostly Union Jacks, with a few St George\u2019s Crosses. Only one lamp post has been missed. Today many of them are wet, clinging to their posts. I could wait for better weather to capture them as I saw them yesterday, when [&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-34894","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\/34894","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=34894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}