{"id":9132,"date":"2013-06-19T22:59:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T21:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9132"},"modified":"2013-06-19T22:59:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T21:59:38","slug":"a-new-zebra-crossing-near-larkmead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9132","title":{"rendered":"About the new Zebra Crossing near Larkmead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13061901.jpg\" alt=\"A new Zebra Crossing\" \/><br \/>\nA new Zebra Crossing has been installed at the top of Spring Road to help the morning migration of students going to Larkmead School, along Faringdon Road, and returnng home later in the day.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13061902.jpg\" alt=\"A new Zebra Crossing\" \/><br \/>\nRecently installed crossings on busier roads in Abingdon have been of the Pelican or Toucan variety, with traffic lights. The Zebra Crossing pre-dates such bird named crossings. The Belisha beacons either side are  named after Leslie Hore-Belisha, the Minister of Transport, who introduced them in 1934 &#8211; according to Wikipedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Zebra Crossing has been installed at the top of Spring Road to help the morning migration of students going to Larkmead School, along Faringdon Road, and returnng home later in the day. Recently installed crossings on busier roads in Abingdon have been of the Pelican or Toucan variety, with traffic lights. The Zebra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school","category-street-scene"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132","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=9132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}