{"id":1996,"date":"2010-11-14T07:35:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T06:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2010-11-14T07:35:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T06:35:56","slug":"a-visitors-experience-of-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=1996","title":{"rendered":"Visitors from Abingdon&#8217;s twin town Argentan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Argentan Visitors\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10111407.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere are visitors from Abingdon&#8217;s twin town Argentan over for the weekend. The party includes two of the priests from Argentan&#8217;s parish church. They will be taking part in the Remembrance Day service. <\/p>\n<p>As part of the cultural exchange they were told a little bit about Trinity Church, its history, and the history of the Methodist movement. A short extract was read from the diary of John Wesley &#8211; the founder of Methodism &#8211; and his impressions when he visited Abingdon on 22nd July 1741 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Argentan Visitors\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10111408.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Argentan Visitors\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10111402.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThen the Argentan visitors went over to the church hall where a festive fair was in full swing and they could buy quince jam, marmalade and home made festive decorations, and have a go on the Tombola. After that bangers and mash was served up from the kitchen servery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are visitors from Abingdon&#8217;s twin town Argentan over for the weekend. The party includes two of the priests from Argentan&#8217;s parish church. They will be taking part in the Remembrance Day service. As part of the cultural exchange they were told a little bit about Trinity Church, its history, and the history of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage","category-twinning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996","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=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}