{"id":21621,"date":"2018-11-24T23:08:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T22:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21621"},"modified":"2018-11-24T23:08:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T22:08:14","slug":"christmas-fair-christmas-market-and-local-excellence-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21621","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Fair, Christmas Market, and Local Excellence Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a lot happening in Abingdon today.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18112401.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon today\" \/><br \/>\nTrinity had a Christmas Fair.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18112416.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon today\" \/><br \/>\nSt Helen&#8217;s had a Christmas Market.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18112406.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon today\" \/><br \/>\nAt Trinity, one of the stalls was selling Christmas cards and decorations made  by Trinity&#8217;s Friendship Group.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18112408.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon today\" \/><br \/>\nAt St Helen&#8217;s one of the stalls was selling books written by the Rector of St Helen&#8217;s, Revd Charles Miller, together with poetry books by Rowan Williams.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18112410.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon today\" \/><br \/>\nOn the Market Place there was a Local Excellence Market &#8211; the first of three weekend events organised by Abingdon-on-Thames Chamber of Commerce. Next Saturday is the Christmas Extravaganza, and the week after is the Christmas Craft Market.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18112411.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon today\" \/><br \/>\nWould you like to switch on the Christmas lights at the Extravaganza? Find as many elfs as you can in the town&#8217;s shop windows to get the chance.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18112414.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon today\" \/><br \/>\nThere is one elf in the shop where you can buy <em>My First Christmas<\/em> neckerchiefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a lot happening in Abingdon today. Trinity had a Christmas Fair. St Helen&#8217;s had a Christmas Market. At Trinity, one of the stalls was selling Christmas cards and decorations made by Trinity&#8217;s Friendship Group. At St Helen&#8217;s one of the stalls was selling books written by the Rector of St Helen&#8217;s, Revd Charles [&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-21621","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\/21621","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=21621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}