{"id":5890,"date":"2012-02-23T23:39:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T23:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5890"},"modified":"2012-02-23T23:39:02","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T23:39:02","slug":"abingdon-links-in-london-1-abingdon-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5890","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon links in London &#8211; 2. Abingdon Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12022201.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Green\" \/><br \/>\nAccording to <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130508100034\/http:\/\/www.virtual-london.com:80\/houses-of-parliament-the\">The Virtual London website<\/a> &#8230;\u00a0<em>&#8220;Opposite &#8216;The Houses of Parliament&#8217; &#8230; \u00a0is a green and grassy area where news crews conduct interviews with politicians. This is known variously as &#8216;Abingdon Green&#8217;, &#8216;College Green&#8217; and &#8216;St Stephen&#8217;s Green&#8217;. The official line though, from the Head of Public Information at the Palace of Westminster, is that it&#8217;s just called &#8216;The Green&#8217;<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12022202.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Green\" \/><br \/>\nThe name for Abingdon Green may be officially &#8216;The Green&#8217;, but the street alongside is Abingdon Street.<\/p>\n<p>The Earl of Abingdon once owned a residence on this site around 1700. He was well thought of and so the name Abingdon was used when the road was widened &#8211; and his old house demolished &#8211; \u00a0in 1750.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Virtual London website &#8230;\u00a0&#8220;Opposite &#8216;The Houses of Parliament&#8217; &#8230; \u00a0is a green and grassy area where news crews conduct interviews with politicians. This is known variously as &#8216;Abingdon Green&#8217;, &#8216;College Green&#8217; and &#8216;St Stephen&#8217;s Green&#8217;. The official line though, from the Head of Public Information at the Palace of Westminster, is that [&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-5890","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\/5890","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=5890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}