{"id":6899,"date":"2012-07-08T00:27:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T23:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6899"},"modified":"2012-07-08T00:27:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T23:27:45","slug":"museum-re-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6899","title":{"rendered":"Museum Re-opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12070712.jpg\" alt=\"Museum Opening\" \/><br \/>\nThere were flowers waiting at the County Hall this morning.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12070701.jpg\" alt=\"Museum Opening\" \/><br \/>\nA motorcade of MG cars brought the Mayor of Abingdon to the County Hall for the re-opening of the Museum.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12070711.jpg\" alt=\"Museum Opening\" \/><br \/>\nAlongside the Mayor is Martha Howe-Douglas from the Children&#8217;s TV program : Horrible Histories, and Julie Mayhew-Archer, the chairman of the County Hall Museum Committee.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12070702.jpg\" alt=\"Museum Opening\" \/><br \/>\nBoth Mayor and Martha cut the ribbon. Children bought history books  to be signed.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12070703.jpg\" alt=\"Museum Opening\" \/><br \/>\nThe museum lift can now take people down to the cellar but not yet up to most of the museum (pictures to follow in a day or so). The iconic building itself has been saved and restored and set up for the next 50-100 years, and the museum is now warm, and protected from the elements with more available, better, space for exhibits. <\/p>\n<p>There is still work to be done to allow some people to enjoy the museum &#8211; like a mum who would like to go up with her children. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were flowers waiting at the County Hall this morning. A motorcade of MG cars brought the Mayor of Abingdon to the County Hall for the re-opening of the Museum. Alongside the Mayor is Martha Howe-Douglas from the Children&#8217;s TV program : Horrible Histories, and Julie Mayhew-Archer, the chairman of the County Hall Museum Committee. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-county-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899","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=6899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}