{"id":19347,"date":"2017-10-10T23:19:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T22:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19347"},"modified":"2017-10-10T23:19:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T22:19:58","slug":"2017-fair-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19347","title":{"rendered":"2017 Fair Round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017101005.jpg\" alt=\"Fair\" \/><br \/>\nThis year there were two evenings with little or no rain. Crowds were probably bigger on Monday<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017101011.jpg\" alt=\"Fair\" \/><br \/>\nbut a lot of people were still out early on Tuesday.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017101012.jpg\" alt=\"Fair\" \/><br \/>\n2017 was a good year for doughnuts. A lot of vans were serving them.<\/p>\n<p>The old Bellinger&#8217;s forecourt was fenced off and so the first aid ambulances were positioned on the main concourse instead. A Fire Engine was parked behind the Abbey Gateway.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017101020.jpg\" alt=\"Fair\" \/><br \/>\nThree Abingdon Restauarnts had an outside presence serving food and giving out takeaway menus.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017101021.jpg\" alt=\"Fair\" \/><br \/>\nMaria Lee was not only there for fortune telling, but also there to look after the present state of mind.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017101023.jpg\" alt=\"Fair\" \/><br \/>\nThe fair will be gone when I set out early tomorrow morning at 6:45. Bins, overflowing with food wrappers, will be cleared away. Rides will have set off for their next venue. Just a few will be staying nearby for next weekend&#8217;s Runaway Fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year there were two evenings with little or no rain. Crowds were probably bigger on Monday but a lot of people were still out early on Tuesday. 2017 was a good year for doughnuts. A lot of vans were serving them. The old Bellinger&#8217;s forecourt was fenced off and so the first aid ambulances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19347","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=19347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}