{"id":14908,"date":"2015-09-24T23:30:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T22:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14908"},"modified":"2015-09-24T23:30:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T22:30:48","slug":"harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14908","title":{"rendered":"Harvest Donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15092104.jpg\" alt=\"Harvest\" \/><br \/>\nThese bales of hay, stacked near the Tythe Farm estate in Abingdon, could be seen earlier in the month with the spire of St Helen&#8217;s Church in the distance.<\/p>\n<p>Harvest Festivals are not as traditional looking as they used to be. <\/p>\n<p>Canned fruit &#8211; not this year&#8217;s harvest of apples and pears &#8211; are more practical.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15092109.jpg\" alt=\"Harvest\" \/><br \/>\nLast Sunday, St Helen&#8217;s Church, had their Harvest Festival. There were autumnal decorations round the church windows.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15092110.jpg\" alt=\"Harvest\" \/><br \/>\nPeople also brought the harvest from local shops to be donated to the Abingdon Food Bank.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15092111.jpg\" alt=\"Harvest\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon Baptist church also had a Harvest service, with goods donated to the Abingdon Food Bank.<\/p>\n<p>At Trinity, where I am a member, the Harvest will be this coming Sunday. Donations will go to the Asylum Welcome Food Cupboard in Oxford. <\/p>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s church notices said &#8230; <i>&#8220;The needs of refugees fleeing conflict and oppression and seeking asylum are as great as ever. Items specially needed are:- UHT milk; long-life fruit juice; tea and coffee; cooking oil; tins of vegetables, fruit, soup, fish, meat (preferably not pork); couscous; noodles; lentils; jam; honey; sugar; biscuits; crackers. As the Cupboard tends to receive much of its stock at Harvest, please see that items have a &#8220;use-by&#8221; date about six months on.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These bales of hay, stacked near the Tythe Farm estate in Abingdon, could be seen earlier in the month with the spire of St Helen&#8217;s Church in the distance. Harvest Festivals are not as traditional looking as they used to be. Canned fruit &#8211; not this year&#8217;s harvest of apples and pears &#8211; are more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,74,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-food","category-fruit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14908","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=14908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}