{"id":822,"date":"2008-03-04T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2008\/03\/04\/a-square-in-prague\/"},"modified":"2008-03-04T00:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T00:31:00","slug":"a-square-in-prague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"A square in Prague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08030301.jpg\" \/><br \/>Pictures from the Abingdon Arts Festival Photography Competition are on display on the High Street for the next two weeks.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08030302.jpg\" \/><br \/>The pictures are a welcome relief from an empty shop window.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08030303.jpg\" \/><br \/>The winning entry is quite stunning. Its of a square in Prague.<\/p>\n<p>We visited Praque when Czechoslovakia existed as a communist country &#8211; in 1973. At the border control they found some books in our luggage they didn&#8217;t like. The border police interrogated my dad about the books for some hours. Then they let us in, having stapled a note about the books on our visa to ensure we brought them out again. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08030808.jpg\" \/><br \/>The main square in Prague had flags and posters celebrating the day the Russian Tanks had arrived five years before to freeze out the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prague_Spring\">Prague Spring<\/a>. Life went on. A painter painted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictures from the Abingdon Arts Festival Photography Competition are on display on the High Street for the next two weeks.The pictures are a welcome relief from an empty shop window.The winning entry is quite stunning. Its of a square in Prague. We visited Praque when Czechoslovakia existed as a communist country &#8211; in 1973. At [&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-822","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\/822","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=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}