{"id":842,"date":"2008-02-13T00:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2008\/02\/13\/abingdon-on-thames\/"},"modified":"2008-02-13T00:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T00:53:00","slug":"abingdon-on-thames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon-on-Thames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08020408.jpg\" \/><br \/>St Helens Church, the Old Anchor Inn,and the Almshouses are reflected here in the River Thames at Abingdon.<\/p>\n<p>The Abingdon forum has had a short discussion thread about whether our town should use the name &#8216;Abingdon-On-Thames&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>The longer name is and can be used. Wikipedia begins the town&#8217;s entry: &#8220;<em>Abingdon (traditionally known as Abingdon-on-Thames)&#8230;&#8221;<\/em> And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abingdonchamber.co.uk\/\">The Abingdon-on-Thames Chamber of Commerce<\/a> sees promotional value in &#8216;On-Thames&#8217; . <\/p>\n<p>I stick to &#8216;Abingdon&#8217; because its shorter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Helens Church, the Old Anchor Inn,and the Almshouses are reflected here in the River Thames at Abingdon. The Abingdon forum has had a short discussion thread about whether our town should use the name &#8216;Abingdon-On-Thames&#8217;. The longer name is and can be used. Wikipedia begins the town&#8217;s entry: &#8220;Abingdon (traditionally known as Abingdon-on-Thames)&#8230;&#8221; And [&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-842","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\/842","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=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}