{"id":21419,"date":"2018-10-27T17:05:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T16:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21419"},"modified":"2018-10-27T17:05:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T16:05:53","slug":"abingdon-poppy-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21419","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Poppy Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18102702.jpg\" alt=\"Poppy Festival\" \/><br \/>\nSea cadets<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18102701.jpg\" alt=\"Poppy Festival\" \/><br \/>\nand Army cadets were in Abingdon today, with stalls on the Market Place, and selling poppies in the town centre.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18102703.jpg\" alt=\"Poppy Festival\" \/><br \/>\nThe Mayor, Councillor Margaret Crick, and Ena Mitchell, a war widow now aged 100, were also there to support the event.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18102704.jpg\" alt=\"Poppy Festival\" \/><br \/>\nClare, who organised the selling of poppies in Abingdon and the festival, is seen with Richard, from the MG Car Club, who invited along some red MGs.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18102705.jpg\" alt=\"Poppy Festival\" \/><br \/>\nThat included a 1966 MG Magnette, specially decorated with silhouettes and poppies. The owners, Jeremy and Judith, from Aylesbury told me that the MG Magnette has done 55,000 miles in all that time.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18102706.jpg\" alt=\"Poppy Festival\" \/><br \/>\n The display case at Abingdon Library has a leaflet from the Signing of the Armistice in 1918.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18102707.jpg\" alt=\"Poppy Festival\" \/><br \/>\n2018 is the centenary of the end of World War I, and 5000 of the poppies sold this year in Abingdon have 1918-2018 printed on the leaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sea cadets and Army cadets were in Abingdon today, with stalls on the Market Place, and selling poppies in the town centre. The Mayor, Councillor Margaret Crick, and Ena Mitchell, a war widow now aged 100, were also there to support the event. Clare, who organised the selling of poppies in Abingdon and the festival, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21419","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=21419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}