{"id":17284,"date":"2016-10-10T22:26:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T21:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17284"},"modified":"2016-10-10T22:26:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T21:26:39","slug":"the-longest-street-fair-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17284","title":{"rendered":"The Longest Street Fair in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16101002.jpg\" alt=\"The Longest Street Fair in Europe\" \/><br \/>\nThe annual Michaelmas Fair is Abingdon&#8217;s oldest tradition, and best attended event.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16101003.jpg\" alt=\"The Longest Street Fair in Europe\" \/><br \/>\nA number of local restaurants set up camp on their doorsteps to take full advantage, including Dorindo&#8217;s Mexican Restaurant.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16101004.jpg\" alt=\"The Longest Street Fair in Europe\" \/><br \/>\nThere were no gaps between the stalls and rides along the full length of the fair, which stretches &nbsp;from the Market Place to the double mini roundabout off Drayton Road &#8211; more than half a mile.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16101005.jpg\" alt=\"The Longest Street Fair in Europe\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/abingdon.gov.uk\/abingdon-news\/abingdon-thames-town-council\/abingdon-michaelmas-and-runaway-fairs-come-town\">The Town Council website says <\/a> <i>&#8216;It is the longest street fair in Europe.&#8217;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Michaelmas Fair is Abingdon&#8217;s oldest tradition, and best attended event. A number of local restaurants set up camp on their doorsteps to take full advantage, including Dorindo&#8217;s Mexican Restaurant. There were no gaps between the stalls and rides along the full length of the fair, which stretches &nbsp;from the Market Place to 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-17284","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\/17284","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=17284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}