{"id":17307,"date":"2016-10-15T13:49:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T12:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17307"},"modified":"2016-10-15T13:49:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T12:49:29","slug":"christmas-starts-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17307","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Starts Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16101501.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Starts Here\" \/><br \/>\nChristmas started today with some Christmas Shopping at the Finishing Touch on Stert Street.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16101509.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Starts Here\" \/><br \/>\nThen onto the Christmas Shopping event at the Abbey Buildings. The annual Craft Fair is not there in its usual form this year. So somebody called Paul has done an excellent job putting on an alternative event.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16101504.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Starts Here\" \/><br \/>\nIt was fabulous to meet Patsy on the way in.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16101502.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Starts Here\" \/><br \/>\nInside we got some interesting gifts for Christmas &#8211; only 10 weeks to go. <\/p>\n<p>We tried out some samples, including Dutch beer, ginger drinks, sizzling sausages, and some wax on our shoes.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16101508.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Starts Here\" \/><br \/>\nAlso had a go on the Sobel House scratchcards but didn&#8217;t win, and saw a blind hedgehog at the Hedgehog Rescue stall. There has been a dramatic fall in Hedgehog numbers in our lifetime.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16101505.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Starts Here\" \/><br \/>\nWe met Patsy again on the way out. Here she is joined by Rapunzel, a youngish Cap&#8217;n Jack Sparrow, and Mrs Backstreeter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas started today with some Christmas Shopping at the Finishing Touch on Stert Street. Then onto the Christmas Shopping event at the Abbey Buildings. The annual Craft Fair is not there in its usual form this year. So somebody called Paul has done an excellent job putting on an alternative event. It was fabulous to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17307","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=17307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}