{"id":15855,"date":"2016-03-20T09:26:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T08:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15855"},"modified":"2016-03-20T09:26:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T08:26:24","slug":"start-of-spring-and-start-of-easter-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15855","title":{"rendered":"Start of Spring and Start of Easter Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16032001.jpg\" alt=\"Start of Spring\" \/><br \/>\nDaffodils have had a very long season &#8212;&#8211; stretching back to the start of January. Spring is now here and the late daffodils, over the other side of the River Thames from St Helens Church, are in bloom.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16032002.jpg\" alt=\"Start of Spring\" \/><br \/>\nThe parish of Abingdon-on-Thames have a full Easter programme &#8211; starting off with the Palm Sunday services: one at St M, one at St H, and then one at St N.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16031901.jpg\" alt=\"Start of Spring\" \/><br \/>\nYesterday the Abingdon Vineyard Church had their annual Easter Party in the Park with Easter Egg Hunt, egg and spoon races, face painting and kids v adults tug-a-war. They meet usually at Preston Road Community Centre, and this morning have an informal kind of worship with  Easter Crafts from 10:30am to 12 noon. It is described as &#8216;a chance for mums and dads to chill out over coffee while the kids enjoy themselves.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daffodils have had a very long season &#8212;&#8211; stretching back to the start of January. Spring is now here and the late daffodils, over the other side of the River Thames from St Helens Church, are in bloom. The parish of Abingdon-on-Thames have a full Easter programme &#8211; starting off with the Palm Sunday services: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15855","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=15855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}