{"id":7038,"date":"2012-08-03T23:40:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T22:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7038"},"modified":"2012-08-03T23:40:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T22:40:46","slug":"celebrate-the-london-2012-olympics-in-the-punch-bowl-with-coca-cola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7038","title":{"rendered":"Quite a turn round since Mid-Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12080301.jpg\" alt=\"Punch Bowl Scaffolding\" \/><br \/>\nNow that there is no longer any scaffolding to be seen round the County Hall, the Punch Bowl is taking its turn to use some.<\/p>\n<p>There is a &#8220;Business as Usual&#8221; sign above the &#8220;Celebrate the London 2012 Olympics Here With Coca Cola&#8221;.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12080302.jpg\" alt=\"Punch Bowl Scaffolding\" \/><br \/>\nThe Team GB merchandise could well have started to fly off the shelves by now.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12080303.jpg\" alt=\"Punch Bowl Scaffolding\" \/><br \/>\nThere was a slow start medal-wise &#8211; the newspapers had begun to worry mid-week. For example, The Sun printed a large Gold Medal  with the words &#8220;<em>Wanted Gold Medal. Historic bronze for our brilliant gymnasts but please, can we have just one gold. Any sport. We&#8217;re not bothered. As soon as possible. Please, COME ON TEAM GB!<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh we of little faith!!! There has been quite a turn round since then led by rowing and cycling. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that there is no longer any scaffolding to be seen round the County Hall, the Punch Bowl is taking its turn to use some. There is a &#8220;Business as Usual&#8221; sign above the &#8220;Celebrate the London 2012 Olympics Here With Coca Cola&#8221;. The Team GB merchandise could well have started to fly off the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,151,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pubs","category-sport","category-street-scene"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038","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=7038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}