{"id":19400,"date":"2017-10-24T21:06:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T20:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19400"},"modified":"2017-10-24T21:06:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T20:06:01","slug":"cards-for-good-causes-go-on-sale-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19400","title":{"rendered":"Cards for Good Causes go on sale in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017102402.JPG\" alt=\"Cards for Good Causes\" \/><br \/>\nCards for Good Causes &#8211; the multi-charity Christmas card shop &#8211; opened in Abingdon today (Tuesday, October 23), and are celebrating their 30th year. <\/p>\n<p>Comedy writer, and editor, Paul Mayhew-Archer opened the shop at St Nicolas Church in Abingdon. Paul was diagnosed with Parkinson&#8217;s and has been working with Parkinson&#8217;s UK, whose cards, and those of many other organisations are on sale. Buying the cards helps generate funds for good causes, and raises awareness of their vital work.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017102401.JPG\" alt=\"Cards for Good Causes\" \/><br \/>\nThe shops will also sell some special cards depicting local scenes by artist Colin Tuffrey, such as: &#8216;Abingdon from the River&#8217;. There will also be a range of Christmas goods including wrapping paper, gift tags, candles, stocking fillers, and traditional Advent calendars.<\/p>\n<p>Look out for the red triangular Santa signs outside for when the shop is open.<\/p>\n<p>The shop is part of a nationwide network of more than 300 pop-up CFGC shops, all staffed by a team of local volunteers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cards for Good Causes &#8211; the multi-charity Christmas card shop &#8211; opened in Abingdon today (Tuesday, October 23), and are celebrating their 30th year. Comedy writer, and editor, Paul Mayhew-Archer opened the shop at St Nicolas Church in Abingdon. Paul was diagnosed with Parkinson&#8217;s and has been working with Parkinson&#8217;s UK, whose cards, and those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19400","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=19400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}