{"id":5861,"date":"2012-02-20T23:08:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T23:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5861"},"modified":"2012-02-20T23:08:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T23:08:44","slug":"could-be-living-in-abingdon-on-thames-by-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5861","title":{"rendered":"We could be living in Abingdon-On-Thames by Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12021905.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon On Thames\" \/><br \/>\nOn Wednesday evening the Vale of White Horse District Council will vote on whether to change the name of Abingdon to Abingdon-On-Thames. <\/p>\n<p>The motion will be decided during the same meeting that the council decides the budget for next year &#8211; so it could be a long evening.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12021906.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon On Thames\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The council say &#8220;<i>there is no requirement for any public consultation<\/i>&#8221; but they did issue a press release inviting the public to submit any views.<\/p>\n<p>As a result they have 6 people responding in favour, including Nicola Blackwood MP who favours the &#8220;<em>opportunity for Abingdon, to brand itself<\/em>&#8220;. <\/p>\n<p>There were 7 against.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday evening the Vale of White Horse District Council will vote on whether to change the name of Abingdon to Abingdon-On-Thames. The motion will be decided during the same meeting that the council decides the budget for next year &#8211; so it could be a long evening. The council say &#8220;there is no requirement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,137,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-river-ock","category-river-stert","category-river-thames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5861","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=5861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}