{"id":11801,"date":"2014-06-30T21:36:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T20:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11801"},"modified":"2014-06-30T21:36:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T20:36:16","slug":"annual-summer-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11801","title":{"rendered":"Annual Summer Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14063002.jpg\" alt=\"Annual Summer Celebration\" \/><br \/>\nAt St Ethelwold&#8217;s House yesterday they had the annual summer celebration. Visitors enjoyed tea and cakes in the garden, and some joined in circle dancing, followed by a time in the Sanctuary &#8211; celebrating the cycle of life that came into being in the spring, reaches its height of glory in <i>summer<\/i>, and then dies at harvest. Somebody quoted &#8220;<em>&#8216;Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14063001.jpg\" alt=\"Annual Summer Celebration\" \/><br \/>\nMark&#8217;s wildflower meadow at the bottom of the garden is named after a young man who died last year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/yourtown\/witney\/11112129.Government_admits_Mark_Wood_s_benefits_cut_before_he_starved_to_death__was_wrong_\/\">under tragic circumstances<\/a>. The Prime Minister admitted the government were wrong to cut his benefits. And Atos, the company in charge of assessing whether a lot of vulnerable people like Mark should return to work or not, have lost their government contract because of the way they have mishandled cases.<\/p>\n<p>I see from the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20161021051622\/http:\/\/ethelwoldhouse.com\/blog\/\">St Ethelwold&#8217;s Blog<\/a> that Mark loved nature, and the garden. He even had an art exhibition in the Garden Room in 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At St Ethelwold&#8217;s House yesterday they had the annual summer celebration. Visitors enjoyed tea and cakes in the garden, and some joined in circle dancing, followed by a time in the Sanctuary &#8211; celebrating the cycle of life that came into being in the spring, reaches its height of glory in summer, and then dies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-and-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11801","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=11801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}