{"id":7946,"date":"2012-12-26T21:18:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T20:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7946"},"modified":"2012-12-26T21:18:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T20:18:09","slug":"the-2012-christmas-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7946","title":{"rendered":"The 2012 Christmas Floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12122609.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas 2012 Floods\" \/><br \/>\nThe Ock Valley Walk was closed on Christmas Eve because of the flooding, and the Margaret Brown Garden was closed, possibly, because of the council&#8217;s fear of people falling into the River Thames.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12122610.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas 2012 Floods\" \/><br \/>\nSo walks on Christmas Day and Boxing Day have been restricted. Lots of people have gone to look at the floods from places like Abingdon Bridge and the Abbey Grounds.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12122604.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas 2012 Floods\" \/><br \/>\nThe environment agency said earlier today that &#8220;<em>The River Thames continues to rise slowly in the Abingdon area. Levels are expected to be less than or similar to those seen during November 2012<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>More rain, from 5 &#8211; 10mm, is predicted by the Met Office for tomorrow (Thursday). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ock Valley Walk was closed on Christmas Eve because of the flooding, and the Margaret Brown Garden was closed, possibly, because of the council&#8217;s fear of people falling into the River Thames. So walks on Christmas Day and Boxing Day have been restricted. Lots of people have gone to look at the floods from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7946","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=7946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}