{"id":673,"date":"2008-07-16T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2008\/07\/16\/a-town-of-two-co-ops\/"},"modified":"2008-07-16T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T23:02:00","slug":"a-town-of-two-co-ops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=673","title":{"rendered":"A town of two Co-ops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/08071525.jpg\" \/><br \/>The building of the new Co-op was put back many months when two Co-operative Societies merged to form  the Mid Counties Co-operative. They are now based in Oxford and Walsall.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/08071523.jpg\" \/><br \/>Yesterday the UK&#8217;s largest co-operative, the Co-operative Group based in Manchester, made a successful bid to take over Somerfield for a reported \u00a31.57 Bn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The building of the new Co-op was put back many months when two Co-operative Societies merged to form the Mid Counties Co-operative. They are now based in Oxford and Walsall.Yesterday the UK&#8217;s largest co-operative, the Co-operative Group based in Manchester, made a successful bid to take over Somerfield for a reported \u00a31.57 Bn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","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=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}