{"id":10285,"date":"2013-12-07T14:54:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T13:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=10285"},"modified":"2013-12-07T14:54:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T13:54:45","slug":"the-biggest-day-of-the-year-for-small-business-and-the-christmas-craft-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=10285","title":{"rendered":"The biggest day of the year for small business and The Christmas Craft Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-FGWbrh_rGME\/UqMkjaPgr0I\/AAAAAAAAP5w\/lNCwAMpXVzQ\/s1600\/13120606.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-FGWbrh_rGME\/UqMkjaPgr0I\/AAAAAAAAP5w\/lNCwAMpXVzQ\/s1600\/13120606.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt is &#8216;The biggest day of the year for small business&#8217; &#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-rsWV47F-1lE\/UqMjmeq1xQI\/AAAAAAAAP5o\/x2fz3m4rwLI\/s1600\/13120605.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-rsWV47F-1lE\/UqMjmeq1xQI\/AAAAAAAAP5o\/x2fz3m4rwLI\/s1600\/13120605.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nan initiative to encourage consumers to shop locally &#8211; today and beyond. And so it was good to see lots of people in town.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-7VSgNnQBNJo\/UqMiF0cfGYI\/AAAAAAAAP5U\/ZmGUpPXFBk8\/s1600\/13120602.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-7VSgNnQBNJo\/UqMiF0cfGYI\/AAAAAAAAP5U\/ZmGUpPXFBk8\/s1600\/13120602.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOn the Market Place there was a Christmas Craft Market. The town crier was letting people know from the County Hall Roof.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-nC98R2csvds\/UqMimtBpIiI\/AAAAAAAAP5c\/SJ3o2WNvMIs\/s1600\/13120604.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-nC98R2csvds\/UqMimtBpIiI\/AAAAAAAAP5c\/SJ3o2WNvMIs\/s1600\/13120604.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGeorge Haslam was conducting a group of saxophone players. Some are his students. Others play in a number of other bands.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-jdYUEc81WUA\/UqMguNhT5ZI\/AAAAAAAAP5M\/hUpeAJPvmqk\/s1600\/13120601.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-jdYUEc81WUA\/UqMguNhT5ZI\/AAAAAAAAP5M\/hUpeAJPvmqk\/s1600\/13120601.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe flag on Abingdon County Hall was at half mast in memory of Nelson Mandela. <\/p>\n<p>It was also the day when we said a tearful goodbye to Harry. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrydogblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harry Dog Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is &#8216;The biggest day of the year for small business&#8217; &#8230; an initiative to encourage consumers to shop locally &#8211; today and beyond. And so it was good to see lots of people in town. On the Market Place there was a Christmas Craft Market. The town crier was letting people know from 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":[28,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-market-place"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10285","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=10285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}