{"id":18371,"date":"2017-04-15T14:28:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T13:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18371"},"modified":"2017-04-15T14:28:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T13:28:57","slug":"egg-and-spoon-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18371","title":{"rendered":"Egg and Spoon Races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17041506.jpg\" alt=\"Egg and Spoon Races\" \/><br \/>\nPaul Gustafson, the author of Eggbert&#8217;s aventures, devised a special day of Egg and Spoon Racing for Easter Saturday. Visit Abingdon (The BID) helped organise the event.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17041507.jpg\" alt=\"Egg and Spoon Races\" \/><br \/>\nThere were races throughout the day starting with 4-6 year olds at 11:00.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17041508.jpg\" alt=\"Egg and Spoon Races\" \/><br \/>\nThe winners of that were presented by Eggbert with medals and an Easter Egg.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17041509.jpg\" alt=\"Egg and Spoon Races\" \/><br \/>\nThere followed a variety of other races including the army cadets&#8217;s crawling egg and spoon race.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17041513.jpg\" alt=\"Egg and Spoon Races\" \/><br \/>\nAt 12:00 was the race for 7-9 year olds, and then other age categories. The final race was for big folk over 65 at 15:00, and a special run by Paul Gustaffson with an enormous egg and spoon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17041515.jpg\" alt=\"Egg and Spoon Races\" \/><br \/>\nThe event was very popular with young families who needed something to keep their children occupied in the middle of the Easter holidays. There were also bouncy castles, donkeys from the donkey sanctuary, welly wanging, puddle jumping, an obstacle race, painting and crafts, and free fruit.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Gustafson, the author of Eggbert&#8217;s aventures, devised a special day of Egg and Spoon Racing for Easter Saturday. Visit Abingdon (The BID) helped organise the event. There were races throughout the day starting with 4-6 year olds at 11:00. The winners of that were presented by Eggbert with medals and an Easter Egg. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abbey-grounds","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18371","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=18371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}