{"id":15214,"date":"2015-11-23T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15214"},"modified":"2015-11-23T00:31:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T23:31:00","slug":"saturday-morning-in-three-abingdon-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15214","title":{"rendered":"Look Back at the Church Christmas Fairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15112200.jpg\" alt=\"Church Fairs\" \/><br \/>\nSt Helen&#8217;s Church Market opened at 10am on Saturday.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15112202.jpg\" alt=\"Church Fairs\" \/><br \/>\nWhen the door opened people were glad to get into the warmth of that glorious church building.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15112206.jpg\" alt=\"Church Fairs\" \/><br \/>\nAt Trinity Church Fayre, held in the Conduit Centre, there was the chance to play games, visit stalls, and sit round chatting over refreshments.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15112205.jpg\" alt=\"Church Fairs\" \/><br \/>\nAt the Abingdon Baptist Church Fayre you could visit Father Christmas in his grotto,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15112203.jpg\" alt=\"Church Fairs\" \/><br \/>\nand view one of the very biggest display of jigsaws ever assembled in a church.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15112204.jpg\" alt=\"Church Fairs\" \/><br \/>\nFund raising is underway for the church development fund, and church members have compiled a book of their own recipes, and made a calendar of their own photographs &#8211; with originals on display at 35 Ock Street alongside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Helen&#8217;s Church Market opened at 10am on Saturday. When the door opened people were glad to get into the warmth of that glorious church building. At Trinity Church Fayre, held in the Conduit Centre, there was the chance to play games, visit stalls, and sit round chatting over refreshments. At the Abingdon Baptist Church [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214","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=15214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}