{"id":20636,"date":"2018-06-05T22:44:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T21:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20636"},"modified":"2018-06-05T22:44:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T21:44:50","slug":"25-years-of-dawn-didcot-abingdon-wantage-talking-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20636","title":{"rendered":"25 years of DAWN &#8211; Didcot, Abingdon &#038; Wantage Talking Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/2018060501.jpg\" alt=\"DAWN at 25\" \/><br \/>\nOn Saturday the Didcot, Abingdon &#038; Wantage Talking newspaper celebrated their 25th Anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>The charity provides weekly audio recordings of the Didcot Abingdon and Wantage newspapers, free of charge, for the blind and partially sighted.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers read (and record) the local newspapers on a Wednesday evening every week, and listeners receive a USB memory stick in the post a couple of days later. Programmes can also be heard on their website, where there is a history of the charity at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawntn.org.uk\/AboutDawnHistory.htm\">http:\/\/www.dawntn.org.uk\/AboutDawnHistory.htm<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/2018060502.jpg\" alt=\"DAWN at 25\" \/><br \/>\nThe celebration featured special guest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisdaviesart.co.uk\/bio\">Chris Davies<\/a>, a finalist in The Big Painting Challenge on the BBC this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Oxford Mail had an article about the Talking Newspapers 25th anniversary including pictures of a recording <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/16263764.Talking_newspaper_celebrates_25th_anniversary\/\">http:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/16263764.Talking_newspaper_celebrates_25th_anniversary\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to John for the pictures used here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday the Didcot, Abingdon &#038; Wantage Talking newspaper celebrated their 25th Anniversary. The charity provides weekly audio recordings of the Didcot Abingdon and Wantage newspapers, free of charge, for the blind and partially sighted. Volunteers read (and record) the local newspapers on a Wednesday evening every week, and listeners receive a USB memory stick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anniversary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20636","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=20636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}