{"id":16071,"date":"2016-04-23T19:01:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T18:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=16071"},"modified":"2016-04-23T19:01:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T18:01:40","slug":"a-day-for-shakespeare-abingdon-societies-and-saint-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=16071","title":{"rendered":"A Day for Shakespeare, Abingdon Societies, and Saint George!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16042205.jpg\" alt=\"Shakespeare\" \/><br \/>\nMostly Books were celebrating Shakespeare today on the 400th anniversary of The Bard&#8217;s death.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16042202.jpg\" alt=\"Shakespeare\" \/><br \/>\nAt the Clubs and Societies Day, at the Old Abbey Buildings, Abingdon Drama Club were there. The last Shakespeare they &nbsp;performed was Henry V in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Henry V Act 3 Scene 1 &#8211; The speech begins with &#8216;<em>Once more unto the breach, dear friends<\/em>&#8216;, and ends<br \/>\n<i>&#8230; I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,<br \/>\nStraining upon the start. The game&#8217;s afoot:<br \/>\nFollow your spirit, and upon this charge<br \/>\nCry &#8216;<strong>God for Harry, England, and Saint George!<\/strong>&#8216;<\/i><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16042204.jpg\" alt=\"St Georges Day\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers were dancing round the town centre on St Georges Day. They danced at various pubs, then made a visit to the Clubs and Society Day before going to the beer festival at the Nag&#8217;s Head.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16042203.jpg\" alt=\"St Georges Day\" \/><br \/>\nThe Scouts were there too. Baden-Powell chose Saint George to be the Patron Saint of Scouts.<\/p>\n<p>More about the Clubs and Societies Day soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mostly Books were celebrating Shakespeare today on the 400th anniversary of The Bard&#8217;s death. At the Clubs and Societies Day, at the Old Abbey Buildings, Abingdon Drama Club were there. The last Shakespeare they &nbsp;performed was Henry V in 2014. Henry V Act 3 Scene 1 &#8211; The speech begins with &#8216;Once more unto the [&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-16071","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\/16071","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=16071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}