{"id":12143,"date":"2014-08-17T13:45:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T12:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12143"},"modified":"2014-08-17T13:45:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T12:45:32","slug":"good-bye-to-reverend-richard-and-the-abingdon-horse-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12143","title":{"rendered":"Reverend Richard says Goodbye, and The Abingdon Horse Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14081705.jpg\" alt=\"Good bye to Rev. Richard\" \/><br \/>\nAfter 6 years at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinityabingdon.org.uk\/\">Trinity Abingdon<\/a>, Reverend Richard Bittleston led his last service this morning. He was showered with goodbye gifts afterwards, and The Church Secretary said how sad it was to see him go: because of his thought provoking sermons; the musical gifts he brought to Trinity; the way he has helped churches in the local circuit and the Church in Abingdon; and for the warm welcome and attention he has given to all people coming to Trinity for weddings, baptisms, and funerals.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14081706.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Horse Show\" \/><br \/>\nToday was also the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190106142735\/https:\/\/abingdonhorseshow.co.uk\/\">Abingdon Horse Show<\/a>. Horse boxes could be seen arriving throughout the morning, and the first field in Rye Farm was full of horse boxes by lunchtime.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14081701.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Horse Show\" \/><br \/>\nThe next fields held five rings, two for horse jumping, and three rings for showing horses, ridden or by hand , and fun activities like fancy Dress, Prettiest Mare, and Handsomest Gelding.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14081710.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Horse Show\" \/><br \/>\nThere were also stalls selling rider and horse equipment and paraphernalia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 6 years at Trinity Abingdon, Reverend Richard Bittleston led his last service this morning. He was showered with goodbye gifts afterwards, and The Church Secretary said how sad it was to see him go: because of his thought provoking sermons; the musical gifts he brought to Trinity; the way he has helped churches in [&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-12143","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\/12143","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=12143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}