{"id":12056,"date":"2014-08-05T00:14:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T23:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12056"},"modified":"2014-08-05T00:14:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T23:14:04","slug":"centenary-of-the-start-of-world-war-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12056","title":{"rendered":"Centenary of the Start of World War One &#8211; The Great War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14080405.jpg\" alt=\"Start of World War One\" \/><br \/>\nEarlier this evening there was a book signing of the new book &#8216;Abingdon in the Great War&#8217; at the opening of the &#8216;Abingdon at War&#8217; exhibition at Abingdon Museum.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14080403.jpg\" alt=\"Start of World War One\" \/><br \/>\nThroughout the evening people at St Helen&#8217;s Church have been reading the names of the 1336 men from Abingdon who served<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14080404.jpg\" alt=\"Start of World War One\" \/><br \/>\nand the 205 who died in the Great War. We were reminded that Abingdon back then had a population of just 6,800.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14080401.jpg\" alt=\"Start of World War One\" \/><br \/>\nThat was followed by a Candlelit Vigil round the War Memorial where all victims, of all wars, past and present, were remembered.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14080401a.jpg\" alt=\"Start of World War One\" \/><br \/>\nThis was part of the national &#8216;Lights Out&#8217; commemoration where people were invited to turn off their lights for an hour until 23:00, the time war was declared in 1914, and light a candle. (Thanks to Elizabeth for sending the final picture.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this evening there was a book signing of the new book &#8216;Abingdon in the Great War&#8217; at the opening of the &#8216;Abingdon at War&#8217; exhibition at Abingdon Museum. Throughout the evening people at St Helen&#8217;s Church have been reading the names of the 1336 men from Abingdon who served and the 205 who died [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12056","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=12056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}