{"id":4865,"date":"2011-10-13T23:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4865"},"modified":"2011-10-13T23:46:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T22:46:00","slug":"a-deer-and-four-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4865","title":{"rendered":"A deer and stagecoach seen in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11101202.jpg\" alt=\"Deer\" \/><br \/>\nHelen saw this deer as she came out of her house earlier in the week in the Northcourt area of Abingdon.<\/p>\n<p>A little way behind the fence and ivy is the Boundary House Public House. The deer was startled and ran. Deer and modern traffic don&#8217;t mix well so I hope it got home OK.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11101201.jpg\" alt=\"Coach and 4\" \/><br \/>\nDeer were better suited to\u00a0the lower speed days of the stagecoach. Elizabeth sent me this picture of a stagecoach passing down East St Helen Street earlier in the week (on the 11th during the Abingdon Street Fair detour).<\/p>\n<p>Two horse-drawn stagecoaches set out on a 113-mile journey from Windsor Castle to Warwick this week and are currently at Kineton. They stayed at Henley, Dorchester-on-Thames, Stanton Harcourt, Hook Norton and Kineton on the way. Not many Public Houses can cater for a stagecoach and four these days, but I dare say the old coach houses of the\u00a0Kings Head and Bell and the Crown and Thistle, in Abingdon,\u00a0would have give them a good\u00a0place to rest over.<\/p>\n<p>The stagecoaches were\u00a0raising money for Help for Heroes and The Household Cavalry Operational Casualties Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helen saw this deer as she came out of her house earlier in the week in the Northcourt area of Abingdon. A little way behind the fence and ivy is the Boundary House Public House. The deer was startled and ran. Deer and modern traffic don&#8217;t mix well so I hope it got home OK. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal","category-charity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865","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=4865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}