{"id":17242,"date":"2016-10-06T22:06:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T21:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17242"},"modified":"2016-10-06T22:06:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T21:06:25","slug":"michaelmas-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17242","title":{"rendered":"Michaelmas Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michaelmas, or the Feast of Michael and All Angels, is celebrated on the 29th of September every year. It celebrates the Angel of Light who slayed a dragon. <\/p>\n<p>Michaelmas daisies bloom late into September, and beyond, and bring late colour to gardens, as seen here at St Michael&#8217;s Church.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16100602.jpg\" alt=\"Michaelmas Fair\" \/><br \/>\nIn Abingdon, not far from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stmichaels-abingdon.org.uk\/\">Church of St Michael and All Angels<\/a>, the annual Abingdon Michaelmas Fair takes place early in October each year. <\/p>\n<p>On 2nd September 1752 people went to bed, and when they woke up it was 14th September. The dates had changed to be the same as the rest of Europe. Since that time the Abingdon Michaelmas Fair has happened on the Monday before the 11th October instead of the Monday before the 30th September.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16100503.jpg\" alt=\"Michaelmas Fair\" \/><br \/>\nAt the fair pedestrians can walk safely down the middle of Ock Street and High Street between the fairgrounds rides.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16100401.jpg\" alt=\"Michaelmas Fair\" \/><br \/>\nSmoke breathing vehicles are banished for three days by the angels of light. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michaelmas, or the Feast of Michael and All Angels, is celebrated on the 29th of September every year. It celebrates the Angel of Light who slayed a dragon. Michaelmas daisies bloom late into September, and beyond, and bring late colour to gardens, as seen here at St Michael&#8217;s Church. In Abingdon, not far from 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":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17242","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=17242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}