{"id":7824,"date":"2012-12-07T00:43:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T23:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7824"},"modified":"2012-12-07T00:43:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T23:43:08","slug":"christmas-lights-and-sanitary-ware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7824","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Lights Shine On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is always good to see the Christmas lights brightening up these cold and dark December evenings.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12120406.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Lights\" \/><br \/>\nWhen they were last up, the bus stop at the top of Stert Street had been closed because the River Stert culvert beneath was causing worries. Work was undertaken in 2012 but not enough to allow the bus stop to re-open.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12120411.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Lights\" \/><br \/>\nHigh Street has not changed greatly since the Christmas Lights shone in 2011 although there are new shops like <strong>y<\/strong>bu<strong>y<\/strong>nu and OX14 Deli. The opening of Wetherspoon, in Abingdon&#8217;s former High Street post office, could have a more dramatic effect.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12120405.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Lights\" \/><br \/>\nThe Christmas lights were mostly replaced four or five years ago by Abingdon Town Council with low energy LEDs.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12120413.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Lights\" \/><br \/>\nBut some of the older generation lights remain, like the Nativity Scene at the top of West St Helen Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is always good to see the Christmas lights brightening up these cold and dark December evenings. When they were last up, the bus stop at the top of Stert Street had been closed because the River Stert culvert beneath was causing worries. Work was undertaken in 2012 but not enough to allow the bus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824","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=7824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}