{"id":9580,"date":"2013-09-01T23:10:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T22:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9580"},"modified":"2013-09-01T23:10:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T22:10:37","slug":"summers-lease-hath-all-too-short-a-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9580","title":{"rendered":"Summer&#8217;s lease hath all too short a date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is almost over and schools are going back. The holidays began well and the Abingdon Outdoor Pool became very popular until the second week of August when the weather became more typically mixed.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13082909.jpg\" alt=\"Blooms\" \/><br \/>\nThe blooms in Abingdon this summer have added colour as they always do, thanks to the town and district councils who still see them as important.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13082903.jpg\" alt=\"Blooms\" \/><br \/>\nNothing very different from previous summers with a mixtures of hanging baskets<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13082904.jpg\" alt=\"Blooms\" \/><br \/>\nand flowers beds. It has been pointed out by some that there are no blooms in the Abbey Shopping Centre this year.  That would be for Scottish Widows to decide as they run the precinct.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13082900.jpg\" alt=\"Blooms\" \/><br \/>\nOne bed that was different this year was near the Outdoor Pool &#8211; planted by the Carbon Cutters with flowers to feed bees. I took a picture of it being planted  on the day the Open Air Pool opened. Today was the last chance for a swim in the outdoor pool and the sunflowers have fed lots of bees.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is almost over and schools are going back. The holidays began well and the Abingdon Outdoor Pool became very popular until the second week of August when the weather became more typically mixed. The blooms in Abingdon this summer have added colour as they always do, thanks to the town and district councils who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580","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=9580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}