{"id":16144,"date":"2016-05-02T17:07:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T16:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=16144"},"modified":"2016-05-02T17:07:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T16:07:23","slug":"may-morning-with-mr-hemmings-traditional-abingdon-morris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=16144","title":{"rendered":"May Morning with Mr Hemmings Traditional Abingdon Morris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like thousands of other people I decided that I would go to hear the May being greeted at Magdalen Tower at 6am on May 1st.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16050122.jpg\" alt=\"Mr Hemmings Traditional Abingdon Morris\" \/><br \/>\nAfterwards, in Radcliff Square, Mr Hemmings Traditional Abingdon Morris were performing.<\/p>\n<p>This coming Saturday will be Mr Hemmings Day of Dance when 6 invited sides will join with the Mr Hemmings side in dancing at various venues, in Abingdon, starting at the Market Place. Approximate Schedule:<br \/>\n11am : Market Place<br \/>\n11:30 : Black Swan<br \/>\n12:00 : Punchbowl<br \/>\n1:45: Market Place<br \/>\n2:30pm : Brewery Tap<br \/>\n3:15pm : White Horse<br \/>\n4pm : British Legion <\/p>\n<p>Morris Dancing is first recorded in Abingdon in 1560. A record in St Helens Church has the chamberlain buying &#8220;<i>two dossin of Morres belles<\/i>&#8220;.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/alDAqQ0xcV4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThis is my rather shaky video of the singing at Magdalen Tower. There were barriers preventing people jumping off the bridge. One freelance photographer bemoaned to me the lack of photo opportunities these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like thousands of other people I decided that I would go to hear the May being greeted at Magdalen Tower at 6am on May 1st. Afterwards, in Radcliff Square, Mr Hemmings Traditional Abingdon Morris were performing. This coming Saturday will be Mr Hemmings Day of Dance when 6 invited sides will join with the Mr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16144","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=16144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}