{"id":5874,"date":"2012-02-22T00:06:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T00:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5874"},"modified":"2012-02-22T00:06:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T00:06:18","slug":"e-r-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5874","title":{"rendered":"E R &#8211; in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12022002.jpg\" alt=\"E R\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the back of the old post office there is the <span style=\"font-size: large;\">E<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">R<\/span> plaque.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12022003.jpg\" alt=\"E R\" \/><br \/>\nThe <span style=\"font-size: large;\">E<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">R <\/span>letters also appear on most of our old post boxes &#8211; like this one pictured on Bath Street.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12022004.jpg\" alt=\"E R\" \/><br \/>\nER (for Elizabeth Regina, Latin for &#8220;Queen Elizabeth&#8221;) also appeared regularly on stamps.<\/p>\n<p>ER may not be used quite so regularly nowadays but 60 years have gone by since\u00a0 Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the back of the old post office there is the E R plaque. The ER letters also appear on most of our old post boxes &#8211; like this one pictured on Bath Street. ER (for Elizabeth Regina, Latin for &#8220;Queen Elizabeth&#8221;) also appeared regularly on stamps. ER may not be used quite so regularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5874","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=5874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}