{"id":10382,"date":"2013-12-21T19:02:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T18:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=10382"},"modified":"2013-12-21T19:02:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T18:02:45","slug":"the-saturday-before-christmas-and-a-harpist-at-eileen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=10382","title":{"rendered":"The Saturday before Christmas and a Harpist at Eileen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-U5ap1Ou1pM8\/UrXMtrvwaJI\/AAAAAAAAQB8\/nxUM0tQvqC8\/s1600\/13122109.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-U5ap1Ou1pM8\/UrXMtrvwaJI\/AAAAAAAAQB8\/nxUM0tQvqC8\/s1600\/13122109.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Saturday before Christmas has come, and gone, and it was a rainy day.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-uGGqi58ySdw\/UrXMvY0nQrI\/AAAAAAAAQCg\/IBaq_kvLnIo\/s1600\/13122115.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-uGGqi58ySdw\/UrXMvY0nQrI\/AAAAAAAAQCg\/IBaq_kvLnIo\/s1600\/13122115.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLarge puddles formed in a number of places on the town&#8217;s roads.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-LmnPElwOez8\/UrXMtp_mkZI\/AAAAAAAAQCE\/7clKmkVaJ8c\/s1600\/13122111.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-LmnPElwOez8\/UrXMtp_mkZI\/AAAAAAAAQCE\/7clKmkVaJ8c\/s1600\/13122111.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nUnlike previous Saturdays, I did not see any fairs or markets. So it was a pleasure to look in at Eileen on bath Street, where Pervin, International Harpist, was playing Festive music for the customers. I gather she plays every year at Eileen in Sumertown, then Eileen in Abingdon, as a seasonal special.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-WfoeFKn1-VE\/UrXMua1cgtI\/AAAAAAAAQCw\/dhBPo-ap40k\/s1600\/13122112.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-WfoeFKn1-VE\/UrXMua1cgtI\/AAAAAAAAQCw\/dhBPo-ap40k\/s1600\/13122112.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere was also champagne and chocolates. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saturday before Christmas has come, and gone, and it was a rainy day. Large puddles formed in a number of places on the town&#8217;s roads. Unlike previous Saturdays, I did not see any fairs or markets. So it was a pleasure to look in at Eileen on bath Street, where Pervin, International Harpist, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,104,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-music","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10382","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=10382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}