{"id":16417,"date":"2016-06-10T21:40:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T20:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=16417"},"modified":"2016-06-10T21:40:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T20:40:46","slug":"guess-the-year-of-the-bun-throw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=16417","title":{"rendered":"Guess the Year of the Bun Throw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16060801.jpg\" alt=\"Guess the Bun Throw Year\" \/><br \/>\nThis photograph was taken by H.J. Milligan (Copyright) of Abingdon when there was a Bun Throwing from the roof of Abingdon County Hall in the year ____.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16061001.jpg\" alt=\"Guess the Bun Throw Year\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon Herald had a picture of the new Mayor of Abingdon for that year. He had baked the 2500 buns himself for he was also a Master Baker. On that occasion the Monarch&#8217;s speech for the Royal Occasion was amplified across the Market Place using loud speakers.<\/p>\n<p>Was the year?<br \/>\n1935<br \/>\n1937<br \/>\n1946<br \/>\n1953<br \/>\n1956<br \/>\n1966<\/p>\n<p>In 2016 to celebrate the Queen&#8217;s 90th Birthday, at St Nics at 18:00  (on 11th June) there will be a Choral Evensong followed by bells and a traditional bun throwing at 19:00 on the Market Place.<\/p>\n<p>Abingdon Town Council have also organised a Queen&#8217;s 90th Birthday Picnic Party Sunday, at the Rugby Club, 12th June, 12:00-16:00pm.<\/p>\n<p>Abingdon Vineyard Church have also got a Queen&#8217;s 90th Birthday Party, with children&#8217;s activities, on 12th June from 10:30 &#8211; 13:00 at Preston Road Community Centre.<\/p>\n<p>There was an over 90s party at Christchurch last weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photograph was taken by H.J. Milligan (Copyright) of Abingdon when there was a Bun Throwing from the roof of Abingdon County Hall in the year ____. The Abingdon Herald had a picture of the new Mayor of Abingdon for that year. He had baked the 2500 buns himself for he was also a Master [&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-16417","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\/16417","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=16417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}