{"id":11810,"date":"2014-07-02T23:22:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T22:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11810"},"modified":"2014-07-02T23:22:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T22:22:46","slug":"national-sweet-pea-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11810","title":{"rendered":"National Sweet Pea Festival comes to Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14062817.jpg\" alt=\"National Sweet Pea Show\" \/><br \/>\nThe National Sweet Pea Society held their National Show at Millets Farm, Abingdon, last weekend. The sweet pea was introduced to the UK thanks to a Sicilian monk, Franciscus Cupani, who studied the flora of his Island, and sent seeds to this and other countries. The rest is history and &#8220;<em>A Sweet Pea Journey through Time.<\/em>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14062816.jpg\" alt=\"National Sweet Pea Show\" \/><br \/>\nThe show was located in the large marquee near the play area and farm animals.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14062815.jpg\" alt=\"National Sweet Pea Show\" \/><br \/>\nThere were many sweet peas to admire &#8211; both for their paper-like blooms, and their delicate fragrance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Sweet Pea Society held their National Show at Millets Farm, Abingdon, last weekend. The sweet pea was introduced to the UK thanks to a Sicilian monk, Franciscus Cupani, who studied the flora of his Island, and sent seeds to this and other countries. The rest is history and &#8220;A Sweet Pea Journey through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810","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=11810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}