{"id":135,"date":"2009-12-16T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T00:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2009\/12\/16\/st-nicolas-day\/"},"modified":"2009-12-16T00:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T00:50:00","slug":"st-nicolas-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"St Nicolas Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09121601.jpg\" \/><br \/>Last Friday was the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Nicholas\">St Nicolas Day<\/a> celebration at St Nicolas School in Abingdon. The day included a church service and special lunch at school and a visit from St Nicolas himself, who arrived in a horse-drawn carriage attended by children dressed as &#8220;peters&#8221; &#8211; St Nic&#8217;s mischievous helpers. (Thanks for sending the picture. More pictures from the same event in 2007 are on the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100201194553\/http:\/\/www.st-nicolas.oxon.sch.uk:80\/st_nicolas_day.htm\">School&#8217;s Website<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Another custom happening here tonight in Abingdon will be the Mummers.   A full schedule is <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160315153612\/http:\/\/www.abingdonmorris.org.uk\/mummhom.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday was the annual St Nicolas Day celebration at St Nicolas School in Abingdon. The day included a church service and special lunch at school and a visit from St Nicolas himself, who arrived in a horse-drawn carriage attended by children dressed as &#8220;peters&#8221; &#8211; St Nic&#8217;s mischievous helpers. (Thanks for sending the picture. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","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=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}