{"id":36057,"date":"2026-10-21T23:05:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T22:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=36057"},"modified":"2026-10-21T23:05:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T22:05:42","slug":"rain-gold-coins-and-a-security-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=36057","title":{"rendered":"Rain and More Rain and a Security Scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026102104.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMonday\u2019s sunshine had given way to rain by Tuesday. It rained through much of the night and the day.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026102103.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOn West St Helen Street, puddles gathered in the familiar places. They have been absent for the dry summer.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026102102.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOn Wednesday, the rain continued but not so heavily. Leaves like golden coins were scattered across the pavements in Station Approach. Autumn has a way of decorating the town.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026102101.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nFallen leaves start to gather on the Market Place.<\/p>\n<p>The heating has turned itself on &#8211; a sign that temperatures have dropped.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026102105.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere was a different sort of chill today when a warning appeared telling me that this blog would stop working in six hours unless I installed a new security certificate. I tried but a computer somewhere did not like it. For a while, it looked as though the blog might stop working but then I got beyond the AI bot to a real person called Emily on the help desk who had some updated instructions, and the blog lives on for another night and day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday\u2019s sunshine had given way to rain by Tuesday. It rained through much of the night and the day. On West St Helen Street, puddles gathered in the familiar places. They have been absent for the dry summer. On Wednesday, the rain continued but not so heavily. Leaves like golden coins were scattered across 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":[146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36057","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\/36057","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=36057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}