{"id":707,"date":"2008-06-12T23:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2008\/06\/12\/desperate-times\/"},"modified":"2008-06-12T23:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T23:23:00","slug":"desperate-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"Desperate Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody did say that I must have been hard up for pictures the day I featured an Electricity Sub Station.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08061201.jpg\" \/><br \/>Well finally, I must admit I am getting desperate. Tonight I have been trying to get pictures of Public Conveniences.<\/p>\n<p>This lot near the Charter Carpark are all locked up. No use banging to get in.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08061202.jpg\" \/><br \/>And these at the Abbey Meadows are just closing. The cleaner has just knocked to make sure nobody will get locked inside.<\/p>\n<p>A letter to the Abingdon Herald lifted the lid on the topic of public toilets in Abingdon a few weeks back, and since then it has been all Cisterns go. Last night the Town Council tabled a motion on improving toilet provision in town. The motion was passed but it did include a large number of inadvertent and deliberate puns.<\/p>\n<p>One councillor said &#8220;<em>The new leader of the district council is already on the job<\/em>.&#8221; Another had to be excused.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08061203.jpg\" \/><br \/>Finally, a loo, near the cricket ground, that is open any time.<\/p>\n<p>Well, thats a relief anyway!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody did say that I must have been hard up for pictures the day I featured an Electricity Sub Station.Well finally, I must admit I am getting desperate. Tonight I have been trying to get pictures of Public Conveniences. This lot near the Charter Carpark are all locked up. No use banging to get in.And [&hellip;]<\/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-707","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\/707","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=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}