{"id":8072,"date":"2013-01-16T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T23:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8072"},"modified":"2013-01-16T00:01:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T23:01:14","slug":"gravity-defying-1960s-design-on-ock-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8072","title":{"rendered":"Gravity Defying 1960s design on Ock Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13011501.jpg\" alt=\"Gravity Defying Hardware Shop\" \/><br \/>\nF Knight &amp; Son, on Ock Street, have a modern looking building in the 1960s sense of the word modern. Earlier the building was used by Ballards who, if I remember rightly, traded in agricultural and garden machinery, and then changed to Ballards top end of the market car sales.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13011502.jpg\" alt=\"Gravity Defying Hardware Shop\" \/><br \/>\nAccording to the name scratched into the girders the shop was built by a local builder, J Drew and Son.<\/p>\n<p>Knights is a shops used by tradesmen and the general public for buying tools fixings, electrical, plumbing and decorating supplies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F Knight &amp; Son, on Ock Street, have a modern looking building in the 1960s sense of the word modern. Earlier the building was used by Ballards who, if I remember rightly, traded in agricultural and garden machinery, and then changed to Ballards top end of the market car sales. According to the name scratched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072","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=8072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}