{"id":8545,"date":"2013-03-29T19:42:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T18:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8545"},"modified":"2013-03-29T19:42:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T18:42:50","slug":"developments-on-the-oxford-road-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8545","title":{"rendered":"Seen on the Oxford Road in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13032903.jpg\" alt=\"Oxford Road\" \/><br \/>\nThe Boundary House pub sign is a reminder that this very popular pub was once the house of Cecil Kimber &#8211; the Managing Director of MG Cars. Plans for a new sign with no picture &#8211; just writing &#8211; has been proposed by Greene King and then withdrawn.  <\/p>\n<p>Behind the sign &#8211; high in the trees &#8211; can be seen a prominent rookery.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13032901.jpg\" alt=\"Oxford Road\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;A little further down Oxford Road &#8211; at number 40 &#8211; trees have just been cleared and are being offered as free firewood. The house suffers from a severe lean and will soon be demolished and replaced with a four bedroom house &#8211; not the usual over development that has become commonplace.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13032904.jpg\" alt=\"Oxford Road\" \/><br \/>\nAt the new Tesco Extra &#8211; where the Ox once stood &#8211; I see they have got a cashpoint installed. It was the one thing that got rejected when the original planning application went in to change from pub to shop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boundary House pub sign is a reminder that this very popular pub was once the house of Cecil Kimber &#8211; the Managing Director of MG Cars. Plans for a new sign with no picture &#8211; just writing &#8211; has been proposed by Greene King and then withdrawn. Behind the sign &#8211; high in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8545","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=8545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}