{"id":1666,"date":"2010-10-04T23:36:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T22:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2010-10-04T23:36:08","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T22:36:08","slug":"michaelmas-fair-from-the-blessing-and-back-to-the-body-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=1666","title":{"rendered":"Michaelmas Fair &#8211; from the blessing to sunset on the first day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michaelmas Fair\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10100406.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere is sometimes a free ride after the Sunday Evening 8pm Fair Service. This year the service was led by the Rector himself, and he brought St Helen&#8217;s Church Choir as an added bonus. The Rector is seen here leading the festive fun with the Mayor of Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michaelmas Fair\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10100412.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nNext day I was amazed how many families were out before the sun went down. This is a view along Ock Street.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michaelmas Fair\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10100417.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIt can take a long time to walk the full length of Ock Street and High Street to get to the Body Count at St Nics &#8211; with so many people about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is sometimes a free ride after the Sunday Evening 8pm Fair Service. This year the service was led by the Rector himself, and he brought St Helen&#8217;s Church Choir as an added bonus. The Rector is seen here leading the festive fun with the Mayor of Abingdon. Next day I was amazed how many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-fair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666","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=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}