{"id":17964,"date":"2017-01-28T23:56:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T22:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17964"},"modified":"2017-01-28T23:56:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T22:56:31","slug":"st-michaels-evening-of-victorian-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17964","title":{"rendered":"St Michael\u2019s Evening of Victorian Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Captain Chaos for the first picture &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17012914.jpg\" alt=\"Victorian Entertainment\" \/><br \/>\nA most excellent entertainment consisting of music and readings and drama was given in St Michael&#8217;s church this evening &#8211; 28th January.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17012901.jpg\" alt=\"Victorian Entertainment\" \/><br \/>\nThe Reverend Paul Smith began by playing the part of Reverend Nathaniel Dodson, who caused St Michael&#8217;s Church to be built 150 years ago.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17012908.jpg\" alt=\"Victorian Entertainment\" \/><br \/>\nThe entertainment was arranged by Hilary Clare and Glynne Butt (seen here on Pianoforte accompanying Peter Willis, a well known vocalist). <\/p>\n<p>The church was crowded by a highly respectable audience.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17012910.jpg\" alt=\"Victorian Entertainment\" \/><br \/>\nThe entertainment included a new selection of songs from the comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan called The Mikado. The song &#8216;Three Little Maids&#8217; was loudly and rapturously applauded.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17012911.jpg\" alt=\"Victorian Entertainment\" \/><br \/>\nThe evening ended with a rousing rendition of Rule Britannia.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17012912.jpg\" alt=\"Victorian Entertainment\" \/><br \/>\nBuns were thrown into the audience as we remembered Queen Victoria&#8217;s Diamond jubilee. <\/p>\n<p>In the short space of an evening we relived Victoria&#8217;s reign, and its impact on Abingdon life.<\/p>\n<p>It was part of the celebration of St Michael&#8217;s 150th anniversary &#8211; and was most ably executed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Captain Chaos for the first picture &#8230; A most excellent entertainment consisting of music and readings and drama was given in St Michael&#8217;s church this evening &#8211; 28th January. The Reverend Paul Smith began by playing the part of Reverend Nathaniel Dodson, who caused St Michael&#8217;s Church to be built 150 years ago. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17964","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=17964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}