{"id":4996,"date":"2011-10-31T00:12:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T23:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4996"},"modified":"2011-10-31T00:12:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T23:12:48","slug":"thorntons-have-closed-but-there-is-still-sweet-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4996","title":{"rendered":"Thorntons have closed but there is still Sweet Chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11103004.jpg\" alt=\"Sweet Chocolate\" \/><br \/>\nThorntons may have closed and the shop is looking a ghost of its former self&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11103001.jpg\" alt=\"Sweet Chocolate\" \/><br \/>\nbut there is still an independent sweet and chocolate shop in Abingdon, on Stert Street, who do have chocolates to fill some of the space in the market left by Thorntons.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11103002.jpg\" alt=\"Sweet Chocolate\" \/><br \/>\nSweet Chocolate are best known for their retro \/ traditional sweets and more recently American candy bars.\u00a0 Find out more of their recent innovations on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Sweet-Chocolate\/155037884507849\">facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I hope they have a successful run up to Christmas &#8230; once they have managed to get over the Halloweenies.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t want any more ghost shops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thorntons may have closed and the shop is looking a ghost of its former self&#8230;. but there is still an independent sweet and chocolate shop in Abingdon, on Stert Street, who do have chocolates to fill some of the space in the market left by Thorntons. Sweet Chocolate are best known for their retro \/ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996","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=4996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}