{"id":13315,"date":"2015-02-01T00:13:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T23:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13315"},"modified":"2015-02-01T00:13:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T23:13:45","slug":"wassailing-young-apples-trees-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13315","title":{"rendered":"Wassailing The Apples Trees in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15013112.jpg\" alt=\"Wassailing\" \/><br \/>\nThe old tradition of Wassailing was brought to Abingdon today in Caldecott Meadow.<\/p>\n<p>The event was conceived by the South Abingdon Children&#8217;s Centre, and the Abingdon Carbon Cutters. The master of ceremonies came dressed as a Green Man.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15013111.jpg\" alt=\"Wassailing\" \/><br \/>\nEntertainment was provided by The Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers, and the Abingdon Music Centre.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15013109.jpg\" alt=\"Wassailing\" \/><br \/>\nOn arriving, we were given mulled apple juice &#8211; cooked on an open fire.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the Children&#8217;s Centre, and on the Abingdon Museum stall outside, there were tables and various implements to make decorations, and rattles for the ceremony.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15013114.jpg\" alt=\"Wassailing\" \/><br \/>\nThe Green Man led us in the actual Wassail ceremony. <\/p>\n<p>He said a verse&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15013113.jpg\" alt=\"Wassailing\" \/><br \/>\nThen we all joined in the refrain &#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Wake up! Wake up Oh Apple Tree!<br \/>\nWake up! We Wassail Thee!&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Wassail involved a lot of noise: saucepans were struck and rattles were rattled.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15013116.jpg\" alt=\"Wassailing\" \/><br \/>\nAs part of this new-old-tradition we were encouraged to &#8220;<em>Cut out Toast Shapes, and dress the Trees<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old tradition of Wassailing was brought to Abingdon today in Caldecott Meadow. The event was conceived by the South Abingdon Children&#8217;s Centre, and the Abingdon Carbon Cutters. The master of ceremonies came dressed as a Green Man. Entertainment was provided by The Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers, and the Abingdon Music Centre. On arriving, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ceremony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13315","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=13315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}