{"id":6082,"date":"2012-03-22T00:44:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T00:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6082"},"modified":"2012-03-22T00:44:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T00:44:06","slug":"first-day-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6082","title":{"rendered":"First Day of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12032105.jpg\" alt=\"First Day of Spring\" \/><br \/>\nLast Sunday was Mothers Day &#8211; daffodils were given out to the mothers, grand mothers and GGMs\u00a0 in the congregation at Trinity. It was also Revd Richard&#8217;s last Sunday before a 4 month sabbatical. The one benefit of being a minister is that every few years you get an enforced sabbatical &#8211; or study leave.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12032102.jpg\" alt=\"First Day of Spring\" \/><br \/>\n21st March &#8211; yesterday already &#8211; was the first day of spring.\u00a0 (More importantly it was my mum&#8217;s birthday.)<\/p>\n<p>The south part of town looks at its best at this time of year with the cherry trees in bloom.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12032103.jpg\" alt=\"First Day of Spring\" \/><br \/>\nToday there was a UK Budget and Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council had their first full meeting as <strong>Abingdon-on-Thames <\/strong>Town Council.<\/p>\n<p>I did intend going to report on the town council meeting. Unfortunately I did not get back from work in time.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12032101.jpg\" alt=\"First Day of Spring\" \/><br \/>\nHopefully somebody can let us know what happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday was Mothers Day &#8211; daffodils were given out to the mothers, grand mothers and GGMs\u00a0 in the congregation at Trinity. It was also Revd Richard&#8217;s last Sunday before a 4 month sabbatical. The one benefit of being a minister is that every few years you get an enforced sabbatical &#8211; or study leave. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082","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=6082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}