{"id":20441,"date":"2018-05-02T22:47:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T21:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20441"},"modified":"2018-05-02T22:47:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T21:47:11","slug":"may-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20441","title":{"rendered":"May Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18050202.jpg\" alt=\"May Fair\" \/><br \/>\nIf you want to see the crowning of the May King and Queen in Abingdon and see Maypole Dancing then there is the May Fair at St Nicolas School on Saturday 12th May 2018.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18050201.jpg\" alt=\"May Fair\" \/><br \/>\nSome of the national newspapers seem to have been making a thing about the revival of traditions such as Morris Dancing and Maypole Dancing. Sales of collapsible maypoles are doing very well, and young people are getting into Morris Dancing.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18050204.jpg\" alt=\"May Fair\" \/><br \/>\nIn 2006 there was a Spring Fair on Abingdon Market Place with Maypole Dancing by Dunmore School. That could have been the last time that happened in the town centre.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18050203.jpg\" alt=\"May Fair\" \/><br \/>\nIn 2006 there was an exhibition of children&#8217;s art in the Abbey Buildings. One work featured Maypole Dancing with children from Caldecott School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to see the crowning of the May King and Queen in Abingdon and see Maypole Dancing then there is the May Fair at St Nicolas School on Saturday 12th May 2018. Some of the national newspapers seem to have been making a thing about the revival of traditions such as Morris Dancing [&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-20441","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\/20441","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=20441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}