{"id":17445,"date":"2016-11-05T20:41:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T19:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17445"},"modified":"2016-11-05T20:41:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T19:41:34","slug":"november-5th-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17445","title":{"rendered":"November 5th in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16110501.jpg\" alt=\"November 5th\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon Army Cadets have been in the town centre selling poppies again today. Remembrance Sunday is the 13th November.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16110502.jpg\" alt=\"November 5th\" \/><br \/>\nThere was a first frost on Thursday. Leaves have been falling steadily.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16110503.jpg\" alt=\"November 5th\" \/><br \/>\nIt is November the 5th and there is a chance to take part in a Firewalk at the Nags Head. Money raised goes to Blue Skye Thinking.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16110504.jpg\" alt=\"November 5th\" \/><br \/>\nAlso on tonight is the scouts&#8217; fireworks, and tomorrow is Dalton Barracks fireworks and funfair. They normally also have a big bonfire.<\/p>\n<p>I was reading in the library this morning Ron Chung&#8217;s recollections of life in Abingdon (a photocopied pamphlet in the local studies section called &#8216;Where are they now &#8211; The Slums and Courts of Abingdon&#8217;). He remembers &#8220;<em>November 5th we wanted a &#8216;Bonfire&#8217; so I asked the farmer to dump all the collected rubbish from the shops to be dumped in the &#8216;Reck&#8217; for this which he carried out provided we kept it tidy and a great fire we had. (Remember all this was collected by horse and cart).&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;\">NO LORRIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abingdon Army Cadets have been in the town centre selling poppies again today. Remembrance Sunday is the 13th November. There was a first frost on Thursday. Leaves have been falling steadily. It is November the 5th and there is a chance to take part in a Firewalk at the Nags Head. Money raised goes [&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-17445","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\/17445","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=17445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}