{"id":521,"date":"2008-12-08T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2008\/12\/08\/keep-trade-local\/"},"modified":"2008-12-08T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T08:00:00","slug":"keep-trade-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"Keep Trade Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08120720.jpg\" \/><br \/>I&#8217;m Sorry that I missed last Friday&#8217;s 11 AM launch of the national  &#8216;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Keep Trade Local Campaign<\/span>&#8216; in Abingdon, but I was working.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08120721.jpg\" \/><br \/>The campaign is aimed at raising awareness among local businesses of the skills and resources available within the town itself.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08120722.jpg\" \/><br \/>Thanks to Mark for the pictures.<\/p>\n<p>The FSB ( Federation of Small Businesses) organised this event. Here Dr Evan Harris, MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, appears to be pointing at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.localroots.co.uk\/\">www.localroots.co.uk<\/a> sign, for the press. <span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:85%;\" >(Hopefully it will make the Herald who did an excellent two pages on the Christmas Extravaganza. There are also lot more pictures on Abingdon Flickr of the Extravaganza &#8211; see side link.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m Sorry that I missed last Friday&#8217;s 11 AM launch of the national &#8216;Keep Trade Local Campaign&#8216; in Abingdon, but I was working.The campaign is aimed at raising awareness among local businesses of the skills and resources available within the town itself.Thanks to Mark for the pictures. The FSB ( Federation of Small Businesses) organised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","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=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}