{"id":11458,"date":"2014-05-17T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T23:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11458"},"modified":"2014-05-17T00:01:25","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T23:01:25","slug":"museum-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11458","title":{"rendered":"Museum at Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14051601.jpg\" alt=\"Museum at Night\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon County Hall Museum stayed open late tonight as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.culture24.org.uk\/museumsatnight\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Culture24 Museums at Night homepage\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Museums at Night 2014<\/a> &#8211; an annual UK-wide festival encouraging visitors into museums, galleries and heritage sites by throwing their doors open after hours and putting on special events.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14051604.jpg\" alt=\"Museum at Night\" \/><br \/>\nMusic created a great atmosphere on a warm Friday evening. The Amity Wind Ensemble performed in the sessions hall, and a fine pianist played in Buns in the Basement.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14051612.jpg\" alt=\"Museum at Night\" \/><br \/>\nUnder the arcade, the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers and Vale Islanders encouraged everybody to join in the dance. Museum revelers mixed with Friday night revelers near the punchbowl.<\/p>\n<p>The late opening proved popular &#8211; attracting about 300 visitors, many of them new to the museum, and there was always a queue to go on the roof. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abingdon County Hall Museum stayed open late tonight as part of Museums at Night 2014 &#8211; an annual UK-wide festival encouraging visitors into museums, galleries and heritage sites by throwing their doors open after hours and putting on special events. Music created a great atmosphere on a warm Friday evening. The Amity Wind Ensemble performed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11458","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=11458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}