{"id":18891,"date":"2017-07-10T22:05:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T21:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18891"},"modified":"2017-07-10T22:05:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T21:05:12","slug":"abingdon-naturalists-society-50th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18891","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Naturalists Society 50th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Michael for this report &#8230;.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17071101.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Naturalists Society\" \/><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abnats.org.uk\/\">Abingdon Naturalists Society<\/a> 50th Anniversary party was held at Coseners House on Saturday, July 8th. <\/p>\n<p>The Society was formed in May 1967 after the founder members attended a WEA (Workers Educational Association) course in natural history. About 60 past and present members came and there was much reminiscing and looking at photos from days gone by.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17071102.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Naturalists Society\" \/><br \/>\nMy wife Eliso Bloom made an amazing cake with swans (the society logo), a pond with ducks, snakes, flowers etc. It was cut by our President, Richard Lewington, a wildlife artist who has illustrated many books particularly on butterflies and moths. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Michael for this report &#8230;. The Abingdon Naturalists Society 50th Anniversary party was held at Coseners House on Saturday, July 8th. The Society was formed in May 1967 after the founder members attended a WEA (Workers Educational Association) course in natural history. About 60 past and present members came and there was much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anniversary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18891","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=18891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}