{"id":21885,"date":"2019-01-07T22:25:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T21:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21885"},"modified":"2019-01-07T22:25:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T21:25:07","slug":"fencing-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21885","title":{"rendered":"Fencing in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19010701.jpg\" alt=\"Fencing in Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nSwordplay has been around for thousands of years. The Abingdon Sword (pictured above) dates from Saxon times.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19010702.jpg\" alt=\"Fencing in Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nModern day fencing is still happening in Abingdon thanks to the Abingdon Vale Fencing Club. The sport provides good exercise, both mental and physical. For more details, their website is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abingdonvalefencingclub.uk\/\">www.AbingdonValeFencingClub.uk<\/a>, and you can see them on Facebook at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/abingdonvalefc\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/abingdonvalefc<\/a> .<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19010703.jpg\" alt=\"Fencing in Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nThe club meets at the Gymnasium at Larkmead School, and have a close association with Abingdon School who have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdon.org.uk\/fencing_internationals_nov18\">two fencers representing the UK<\/a> at U17 level.<\/p>\n<p>Thankyou to Tony who sent the photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swordplay has been around for thousands of years. The Abingdon Sword (pictured above) dates from Saxon times. Modern day fencing is still happening in Abingdon thanks to the Abingdon Vale Fencing Club. The sport provides good exercise, both mental and physical. For more details, their website is at www.AbingdonValeFencingClub.uk, and you can see them on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21885","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=21885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}