{"id":20620,"date":"2018-06-02T19:06:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T18:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20620"},"modified":"2018-06-02T19:06:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T18:06:11","slug":"music-in-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20620","title":{"rendered":"Music in the Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/2018060214.jpg\" alt=\"Music in the Park\" \/><br \/>\nThere was glorious sunshine as Music in the Park began in the Abbey Grounds in Abingdon with a capacity crowd of 3500.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/2018060210.jpg\" alt=\"Music in the Park\" \/><br \/>\nThe opening band, Sidekickz, got some of the crowd dancing,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/2018060213.jpg\" alt=\"Music in the Park\" \/><br \/>\nThe Undercovers got almost everybody dancing.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/2018060215.jpg\" alt=\"Music in the Park\" \/><br \/>\nThe Oxfordshire Big Band followed with a more laid back beat.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/2018060217.jpg\" alt=\"Music in the Park\" \/><br \/>\nThen the Mayor, Councillor Margaret Crick, thanked everybody who had helped at the event. Special thanks and a bouquet of flowers went to Councillor Alice Badcock who heads up the organising committee.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/2018060219.jpg\" alt=\"Music in the Park\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon Town Band then got people waving flags, and waving mobile phone torches, and even got a lot of people singing the proms part of the programme.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/2018060225.jpg\" alt=\"Music in the Park\" \/><br \/>\nThat was followed by fireworks, and a polite request to take the rubbish home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was glorious sunshine as Music in the Park began in the Abbey Grounds in Abingdon with a capacity crowd of 3500. The opening band, Sidekickz, got some of the crowd dancing, The Undercovers got almost everybody dancing. The Oxfordshire Big Band followed with a more laid back beat. Then the Mayor, Councillor Margaret Crick, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20620","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=20620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}