{"id":14196,"date":"2015-05-31T23:23:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T22:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14196"},"modified":"2015-05-31T23:23:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T22:23:10","slug":"saturdays-local-excellence-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14196","title":{"rendered":"Saturday&#8217;s Local Excellence Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15053104.jpg\" alt=\"Local Excellence Market\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon Country Market are now a regular at the quarterly Local Excellence Market.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15053107.jpg\" alt=\"Local Excellence Market\" \/><br \/>\nI was told by Paul, collecting rent from stall holders, that there were more stalls than ever before. The plant stall was doing particularly well.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15053106.jpg\" alt=\"Local Excellence Market\" \/><br \/>\nI expect some of the stalls, like Chillis 2 U, will be back in Abingdon next weekend at Miele&#8217;s, on 7th June, for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abingdonfoodfestival.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2nd Abingdon Food Festival<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abingdonfoodfestival.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">.<\/a>&nbsp; (You can pre-book Chef demonstrations, and Wine and Cheese tastings on their website.)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15053111.jpg\" alt=\"Local Excellence Market\" \/><br \/>\nMarket Place events do seem to increase the footfall, and buggy fall, in Abingdon town centre.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15053105.jpg\" alt=\"Local Excellence Market\" \/><br \/>\nI did hear that there has been some systematic destruction of advertising signs on lampposts over the last 2 or 3 months in Abingdon. Signs worth around \u00a3800 have been ripped down. (Evidence of &#8216;sign vandalism&#8217; should be sent to the proper authorities. We know it is not any of the councils.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abingdon Country Market are now a regular at the quarterly Local Excellence Market. I was told by Paul, collecting rent from stall holders, that there were more stalls than ever before. The plant stall was doing particularly well. I expect some of the stalls, like Chillis 2 U, will be back in Abingdon next weekend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-place"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14196","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=14196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}