{"id":8702,"date":"2013-04-26T22:33:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T21:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8702"},"modified":"2013-04-26T22:33:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T21:33:54","slug":"community-shop-returns-in-the-old-gas-board-showroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8702","title":{"rendered":"Community Shop Returns in the old Gas Board Showroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13042602.jpg\" alt=\"Community Shop\" \/><br \/>\nThe community shop is back after a year off &#8211; due to the redevelopment of the Abbey Shopping Centre. Community groups will soon be able to promote themselves in the community shop with exhibitions, and \/ or activities, and anything that makes the town vibrant. <\/p>\n<p>May and September are already fairly booked up but if your community group would like to use the shop email Hester ( hester@hand-abingdon.net ). Both Hester and Heather (pictured above) have worked on this venture. Together they represent The Friends of Abingdon and the Choose Abingdon Partnership.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13042601.jpg\" alt=\"Community Shop\" \/><br \/>\nThe shop was until recently a toy shop and,  Hester reminds me, it was once the old Gas Board Showroom. <\/p>\n<p>It must have been where we bought our first oven in 1986 &#8211; a Flavia Festival with oven, 4 gas rings, and grill above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The community shop is back after a year off &#8211; due to the redevelopment of the Abbey Shopping Centre. Community groups will soon be able to promote themselves in the community shop with exhibitions, and \/ or activities, and anything that makes the town vibrant. May and September are already fairly booked up but if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702","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=8702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}