{"id":19846,"date":"2018-01-01T23:36:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T22:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19846"},"modified":"2018-01-01T23:36:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T22:36:34","slug":"new-years-day-walks-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19846","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon New Years Day Walks 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/20180101.jpg\" alt=\"New Years Day Walks\" \/><br \/>\nThe annual January 1st Christian Aid Sponsored Walk met at St Helen&#8217;s church centre. For the first time the eight mile walk was entirely in Abingdon. It began by going round South Abingdon, and then went round part of North Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/20180102.jpg\" alt=\"New Years Day Walks\" \/><br \/>\nCliff Marshall, the co-ordinator, gave instructions and reminded people that the government would double all the sponsorship money they raised for Christian Aid.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/20180102a.jpg\" alt=\"New Years Day Walks\" \/><br \/>\nAn hour later, at 11 am, on the Market Place, participants of the Boundary Walk were photographed for the Oxford Mail \/ Abingdon Herald before leaving on the 4 mile walk round the 1556 Abingdon Borough boundary.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/20180103.jpg\" alt=\"New Years Day Walks\" \/><br \/>\nCouncillor Helen Pighills, a former Mayor of Abingdon, led the walk, helped by Patrick Bird, of the Guild of Abingdon Town Criers.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/20180104.jpg\" alt=\"New Years Day Walks\" \/><br \/>\nBecause the Ock Valley walk is still closed the Boundary Walk had to be diverted down Caldecott Road, along the route of the former canal. There they met the Christian Aid walk coming the other way.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/20180105.jpg\" alt=\"New Years Day Walks\" \/><br \/>\nSoon after that it rained heavily on both walks for about twenty minutes. But spirits were not dampened. Patrick Bird invited anybody listening to come and join the boundary walk, despite the rain. <\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual January 1st Christian Aid Sponsored Walk met at St Helen&#8217;s church centre. For the first time the eight mile walk was entirely in Abingdon. It began by going round South Abingdon, and then went round part of North Abingdon. Cliff Marshall, the co-ordinator, gave instructions and reminded people that the government would double [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19846","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=19846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}