{"id":11301,"date":"2014-04-26T00:07:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T23:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11301"},"modified":"2014-04-26T00:07:51","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T23:07:51","slug":"new-gospel-choir-and-a-solitary-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11301","title":{"rendered":"Looking back at Palm Sunday and Good Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Easter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14042501.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOn Palm Sunday there was the first concert by the Abingdon Gospel Choir &#8211; founded just a few months ago. They were joined by some members of the Oxford Gospel Choir and sang spiritual songs in aid of helping a team from Nicaragua go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/streetchildworldcup.org\/\">Street Child World Cup<\/a> in Brazil.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Easter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14042503.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThen on Good Friday there was a procession from the Charter to a service inside St Nicolas Church.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Easter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14042502.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nA few years ago you might have seen lots of people standing with crosses on the Market Place  in Abingdon on Good Friday, but times have changed and this year Revd. Richard Bittleston&#8217;s was to be seen without a flock, carrying a solitary cross.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Palm Sunday there was the first concert by the Abingdon Gospel Choir &#8211; founded just a few months ago. They were joined by some members of the Oxford Gospel Choir and sang spiritual songs in aid of helping a team from Nicaragua go to the Street Child World Cup in Brazil. Then on Good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11301","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=11301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}