{"id":15396,"date":"2015-12-24T23:55:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T22:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15396"},"modified":"2015-12-24T23:55:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T22:55:49","slug":"christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15396","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15122405.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Eve\" \/><br \/>\nThe window of the Sue Ryder shop &nbsp;changes every week. This week they have a nativity scene cleverly made from materials they had on hand.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15122404.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Eve\" \/><br \/>\nThere was a mixture of sunshine and showers on Christmas Eve. This Rainbow was seen over Waitrose.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15122401.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Eve\" \/><br \/>\n The bells of St Nicolas Church were ringing in the afternoon; and at St Helen&#8217;s Church, oranges and candles had been prepared for the very popular Christingle Service.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15122402.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Eve\" \/><br \/>\nAs the sun went down over Ock Street, the sun lit up the clouds with an orange glow.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15122406.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Eve\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon pubs were very busy as people made Merry.  <\/p>\n<p>Also open late were the churches, and St Nicolas among others had a Midnight service. A crib has been there during advent, and was lit up again on Christmas Eve.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15122403.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Eve\" \/><br \/>\nAnd there was  the unusual sight of a Christmas Full Moon for those going home early on Christmas Day morning. <\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The window of the Sue Ryder shop &nbsp;changes every week. This week they have a nativity scene cleverly made from materials they had on hand. There was a mixture of sunshine and showers on Christmas Eve. This Rainbow was seen over Waitrose. The bells of St Nicolas Church were ringing in the afternoon; and at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15396","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=15396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}