{"id":5603,"date":"2012-01-16T22:14:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T22:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5603"},"modified":"2012-01-16T22:14:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T22:14:48","slug":"did-you-teach-you-children-to-hold-their-breath-going-under-the-abbey-gateway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5603","title":{"rendered":"Black Bags and Gargoyles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12011603.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia on Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nA lovely sunny Market Day in Abingdon. I did think the black bag sign would disappear from Abingdon Market when the wheelie bins took over, but the black bag sign remains. Perhaps it has a greater significance than just saying that there are black bags for sale.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07070805.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nOn the subject of interesting local traditions, I read in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abingdon,_Oxfordshire\">Wikipedia of\u00a0Abingdon<\/a> that &#8220;<em>some people from families that have lived in the town for generations follow the superstition that in walking under the Abbey Gateway one should hold one&#8217;s breath to stop the gargoyles that decorate the gateway from stealing it.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lovely sunny Market Day in Abingdon. I did think the black bag sign would disappear from Abingdon Market when the wheelie bins took over, but the black bag sign remains. Perhaps it has a greater significance than just saying that there are black bags for sale. On the subject of interesting local traditions, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-place"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603","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=5603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}