{"id":885,"date":"2008-01-05T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2008\/01\/05\/the-one-remaining-butcher\/"},"modified":"2008-01-05T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T14:22:00","slug":"the-one-remaining-butcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=885","title":{"rendered":"The one remaining butcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trend to supermarket shopping has reduced the number of butchers shops in the town centre to one. A casual visitor might not realise that one existed. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08010508.jpg\" \/><br \/>But a few chalked &#8216;A&#8217; boards tell of the presence of a shop along one of the little frequented paths in the town centre &#8211; Queen Street.<\/p>\n<p>Hedges have a grand shop window display in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifimages.com\/public\/image\/253970\/view.html\"> Oxford Covered Market<\/a> , but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgesbutchers.com\/\">Hedges in Abingdon<\/a> are a lot less showey. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08010507.jpg\" \/><br \/>The main business of the Abingdon branch appears to be delivering to pubs and restaurants and hotels and homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trend to supermarket shopping has reduced the number of butchers shops in the town centre to one. A casual visitor might not realise that one existed. But a few chalked &#8216;A&#8217; boards tell of the presence of a shop along one of the little frequented paths in the town centre &#8211; Queen Street. Hedges [&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-885","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\/885","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=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}