{"id":17744,"date":"2016-12-19T23:30:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T22:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17744"},"modified":"2016-12-19T23:30:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T22:30:37","slug":"turkey-and-mistletoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17744","title":{"rendered":"Turkey and Mistletoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/12031801.jpg\" alt=\"Turkey and Mistletoe\" \/><br \/>\nYesterday we caught the X3 into Oxford and, among other things, walked through the Covered Market where Hedges&#8217; posters advertise the geese and turkeys &#8211; supplied by Peachcroft Farm for over 75 years.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/12031906.jpg\" alt=\"Turkey and Mistletoe\" \/><br \/>\nTurkeys and geese could be seen above the shop.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/12031902.jpg\" alt=\"Turkey and Mistletoe\" \/><br \/>\nHedges in Abingdon also have the same posters &#8211; alongside blackboards telling passers-by of the meats on offer.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/12031901.jpg\" alt=\"Turkey and Mistletoe\" \/><br \/>\nThere is no display of turkeys and geese above the shop window,. There is not even a shop window. Hedges delivery vans operate from here, but there is a door welcoming customers.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/12031903.jpg\" alt=\"Turkey and Mistletoe\" \/><br \/>\nNot far away on the Market Place Mistletoe was hung out on the plant stall. Another of the ingredients for Christmas.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<em>Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe<br \/>\nHelp to make the season bright<br \/>\nTiny tots with their eyes all aglow<br \/>\nWill find it hard to sleep tonight <\/em><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nFrom Nat King Cole&#8217;s &#8211; The Christmas Song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we caught the X3 into Oxford and, among other things, walked through the Covered Market where Hedges&#8217; posters advertise the geese and turkeys &#8211; supplied by Peachcroft Farm for over 75 years. Turkeys and geese could be seen above the shop. Hedges in Abingdon also have the same posters &#8211; alongside blackboards telling passers-by [&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-17744","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\/17744","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=17744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}