{"id":12995,"date":"2014-12-13T10:33:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T09:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12995"},"modified":"2014-12-13T10:33:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T09:33:28","slug":"24-hours-carol-singing-marathon-long-furlong-community-centre-while-mortals-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12995","title":{"rendered":"24 Hours Carol Singing Marathon &#8211; Long Furlong Community Centre &#8211; while mortals sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting on Friday (yesterday) at Noon there has been a 24 Hours Carol Singing Marathon at Long Furlong Community Centre. Lots of groups have taken part &#8230; including Long Furlong School, regular choirs, the U 9s Football club, the 3rd Abingdon Guides. <\/p>\n<p>Just before midnight The Street Pastors sang. After midnight followed 2 Dirty Dancing Ladies, then Swedish Lucia &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Into the small hours as frost formed outside there were late night turns &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14121302.jpg\" alt=\"24 Hours Carol Singing Marathon\" \/><br \/>\n2am &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14121303.jpg\" alt=\"24 Hours Carol Singing Marathon\" \/><br \/>\n3am &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14121304.jpg\" alt=\"24 Hours Carol Singing Marathon\" \/><br \/>\n4am &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14121305.jpg\" alt=\"24 Hours Carol Singing Marathon\" \/><br \/>\n5am &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14121306.jpg\" alt=\"24 Hours Carol Singing Marathon\" \/><br \/>\nIn the final 30 minutes from 11:30am to noon there was a big finale with many people coming to the final carols. About 1200 people took part during the 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>They raised money for The Archway Foundation and Blue Sky Thinking. Find out more on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1527366070814675\/?ref=6&#038;ref_notif_type=plan_admin_added\">facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting on Friday (yesterday) at Noon there has been a 24 Hours Carol Singing Marathon at Long Furlong Community Centre. Lots of groups have taken part &#8230; including Long Furlong School, regular choirs, the U 9s Football club, the 3rd Abingdon Guides. Just before midnight The Street Pastors sang. After midnight followed 2 Dirty Dancing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity","category-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12995","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=12995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}