{"id":20666,"date":"2018-06-09T22:39:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T21:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20666"},"modified":"2018-06-09T22:39:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T21:39:27","slug":"country-market-craft-book-signings-and-rainbow-picnic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20666","title":{"rendered":"Country Market Craft, Book Signings, and Rainbow Picnic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/2018060903.jpg\" alt=\"Country Market Craft\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon Country Market was at the Salvation Army in West St Helen Street today, and featured, as usual, the colourful craft stalls.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/2018060904.jpg\" alt=\"Book Signing\" \/><br \/>\nThere were two book signing in town today. At The Bookstore two local ladies were in love with the same man and they both wrote their diaries &#8211; mostly about him. He was a musician, and all this happened in the 1960s. The diaries are now revealed, and published in a novel as <em>&#8216;Only One Woman&#8217;.<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/2018060905.jpg\" alt=\"Book Signing\" \/><br \/>\nAt Mostly Books, former co-owner, Nicki Thornton, was signing books. She is now the author of <em>&#8216;The Last-Chance Hotel&#8217;<\/em>, winner of The Times\/Chicken House Children\u2019s Fiction Competition. There will be another piece about Nicki&#8217;s book later this month.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/2018060906.jpg\" alt=\"Rainbow Picnic\" \/><br \/>\nMeanwhile on the Market Place a picnic started at around 3:30pm.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/2018060907.jpg\" alt=\"Rainbow Picnic\" \/><br \/>\nIt could be the start of another great Abingdon Tradition &#8211; <em>Rainbow Picnics on the Market Place.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abingdon Country Market was at the Salvation Army in West St Helen Street today, and featured, as usual, the colourful craft stalls. There were two book signing in town today. At The Bookstore two local ladies were in love with the same man and they both wrote their diaries &#8211; mostly about him. He [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20666","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=20666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}