{"id":19321,"date":"2017-10-07T14:42:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T13:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19321"},"modified":"2017-10-07T14:42:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T13:42:44","slug":"touch-of-pink-in-the-town-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19321","title":{"rendered":"Touch of Pink in the town centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017100705.jpg\" alt=\"Touch of Pink\" \/><br \/>\nOrganised by local Charity Against Breast Cancer, the town was touched with pink today with balloons in shop windows, bras tied round the pillars of the County Hall &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017100708.jpg\" alt=\"Touch of Pink\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;and a lot of stalls and activities going on the Market Place.<\/p>\n<p>Part fund raiser and part raising awareness, you could look through microscopes at slides showing healthy and cancerous ducts. Against Breast Cancer funds groundbreaking research to improve detection, treatment and increase survival after breast cancer diagnosis.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017100709.jpg\" alt=\"Touch of Pink\" \/><br \/>\nMr Hemming&#8217;s Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers provided some of the entertainment, and invited people to join in the last dance. They welcome new dancers, men and women, and you can go along on Monday 16th October at 8 pm to the Royal British Legion on Spring Road to have a go, and any Monday after that.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017100714.jpg\" alt=\"Touch of Pink\" \/><br \/>\nThe Crown and Thistle were there providing burgers. Among their upcoming events is Royal Blood, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/367368583680553\/\">murder mystery evening<\/a> on 10th November.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017100715.jpg\" alt=\"Touch of Pink\" \/><br \/>\nThere were various stalls where you could win prizes such as a lucky person who won on the wine or water game.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017100717.jpg\" alt=\"Touch of Pink\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrmuddlesmagicalmayhem.co.uk\/\">Mr Muddle<\/a> provided an enthralling magic show for the children and adults.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017100721.jpg\" alt=\"Touch of Pink\" \/><br \/>\nMember of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abingdonoperatic.co.uk\/\">Abingdon Operatic Society<\/a> were there to sing some songs from their upcoming show Sister Act starting 24th October. Tickets are on sale.<\/p>\n<p>There was lots more &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organised by local Charity Against Breast Cancer, the town was touched with pink today with balloons in shop windows, bras tied round the pillars of the County Hall &#8230; &nbsp;and a lot of stalls and activities going on the Market Place. Part fund raiser and part raising awareness, you could look through microscopes at slides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19321","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=19321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}