{"id":6998,"date":"2012-07-27T00:05:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T23:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6998"},"modified":"2012-07-27T00:05:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T23:05:25","slug":"the-olympic-rings-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6998","title":{"rendered":"The Olympic Rings in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12072604.jpg\" alt=\"The Olympic Rings\" \/><br \/>\nOn the Roundabout near Lodge Hill in Abingdon, drivers coming from Oxford are greeted by a floral \u00a0representation of The Olympic Rings. When that symbol was originally designed, in 1914, \u00a0those five colours appeared on all the national flags of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 24 hours before the opening ceremony and I have been wondering if we could go one better &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12072605.jpg\" alt=\"The Olympic Rings\" \/><br \/>\nWith a touch of paint Abingdon Water Treatment Works could make an Olympic Symbol that could be seen from outer space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Roundabout near Lodge Hill in Abingdon, drivers coming from Oxford are greeted by a floral \u00a0representation of The Olympic Rings. When that symbol was originally designed, in 1914, \u00a0those five colours appeared on all the national flags of the world. Less than 24 hours before the opening ceremony and I have been wondering [&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-6998","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\/6998","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=6998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}