{"id":15382,"date":"2015-12-23T00:08:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T23:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15382"},"modified":"2015-12-23T00:08:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T23:08:01","slug":"mummers-play-in-abingdons-pubs-for-one-night-only-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15382","title":{"rendered":"Mummers Play in Abingdon&#8217;s Pubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15122201.jpg\" alt=\"Mummers Play\" \/><br \/>\nThere was a battle between good and evil, and life and death, tonight in Abingdon as <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160315153612\/http:\/\/www.abingdonmorris.org.uk\/mummhom.htm\">The Abingdon Mummers<\/a> took their Mummer&#8217;s Play round some of the pubs near the town centre.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15122205.jpg\" alt=\"Mummers Play\" \/><br \/>\nIn the first battle scene St George is killed by Bold Slasher, But a Magical Doctor has a potion that brings St George back to life.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15122203.jpg\" alt=\"Mummers Play\" \/><br \/>\nIn the next battle St George kills Bold Slasher, and this time the magic of the doctor is not enough.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15122202.jpg\" alt=\"Mummers Play\" \/><br \/>\nOnly the magic, of Mrs. Finney&#8217;s flashing umbrella, applied to various parts of Bold Slasher&#8217;s anatomy, brings him back to life.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6yNo968J32Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThis play ends with a song and a chorus of <b>We wish you a Merry Christmas<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>A collection was then taken for the charity of the night&#8230;<i>&#8220;The Abingdon Breakaway Club, which helps people who don&#8217;t get out enough to get out a bit more.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a battle between good and evil, and life and death, tonight in Abingdon as The Abingdon Mummers took their Mummer&#8217;s Play round some of the pubs near the town centre. In the first battle scene St George is killed by Bold Slasher, But a Magical Doctor has a potion that brings St George [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15382","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=15382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}