{"id":20225,"date":"2018-03-23T23:26:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T22:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20225"},"modified":"2018-03-23T23:26:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T22:26:41","slug":"oxfordshire-home-guard-wwii-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20225","title":{"rendered":"Oxfordshire Home Guard WWII Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18032307.jpg\" alt=\"Home Guard Exhibition\" \/><br \/>\nThe Oxfordshire Home Guard were at the Community Free Space in Bury Street, Abingdon, and will be back tomorrow, with an exhibition called &#8216;Doing Their Bit.&#8217;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18032303.jpg\" alt=\"Home Guard Exhibition\" \/><br \/>\nThey came armed, and fully equipped, but on this occasion they were not expecting an enemy attack.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18032306.jpg\" alt=\"Home Guard Exhibition\" \/><br \/>\nInstead they were meeting the public in the year 2018 to show what life was like on the home front during WWII.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18032302.jpg\" alt=\"Home Guard Exhibition\" \/><br \/>\nThe Home Guard had posters recruiting women volunteers to assist by performing non-combatant duties similar to those under taken by the Women\u2019s Auxiliary Serviced for the R.A.F. . That is in addition to all the work women were doing at home, in factories, on the buses, and wherever else they are needed during the war.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18032305.jpg\" alt=\"Home Guard Exhibition\" \/><br \/>\nThe Oxfordshire Home Guard have also generously promised to turn out as a body to guard Abingdon Lock on Sunday 8th April 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxfordshire Home Guard were at the Community Free Space in Bury Street, Abingdon, and will be back tomorrow, with an exhibition called &#8216;Doing Their Bit.&#8217; They came armed, and fully equipped, but on this occasion they were not expecting an enemy attack. Instead they were meeting the public in the year 2018 to show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20225","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=20225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}