{"id":734,"date":"2008-05-20T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2008\/05\/20\/two-sides-to-every-story\/"},"modified":"2008-05-20T23:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T23:18:00","slug":"two-sides-to-every-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"Two sides to every story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08052001.jpg\" \/><br \/>A comment in the Abingdon Herald recently said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">I visited Abingdon a couple of weeks ago, for the first time and had thoughts of a nice affluent rural English village, wow what a change when visiting the place for real. I found Abingdon to be derelict, depressing and covered in CCTV. What has this country come to when small towns are in this sort of mess<\/span>?&#8221;<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08052002.jpg\" \/><br \/>Not sure if the comment is for real. But I do know that when I&#8217;ve put upbeat comments about Abingdon in the Herald web comments I&#8217;ve had people say &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Are you for real<\/span>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08052003.jpg\" \/><br \/>Here a coot is bringing up her chick on the River Thames near Abingdon town centre: complete with upended drink bottle, apple core, litter including bread wrapper, and lots of uneaten bread. Two sides to every story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comment in the Abingdon Herald recently said: &#8220;I visited Abingdon a couple of weeks ago, for the first time and had thoughts of a nice affluent rural English village, wow what a change when visiting the place for real. I found Abingdon to be derelict, depressing and covered in CCTV. What has this country [&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-734","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\/734","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=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}