{"id":22660,"date":"2019-06-01T16:02:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T15:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22660"},"modified":"2019-06-01T16:02:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T15:02:12","slug":"fun-in-the-park-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22660","title":{"rendered":"Fun in The Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a lovely sunny day and lots of people went to the Abbey Gardens for Fun in the Park.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19060106.jpg\" alt=\"Fun in The Park\" \/><br \/>\nNear the entrance, extinction rebellion had a quote from David Attenborough: <em>&#8216;The collapse of civilisation and the natural world is on the horizon.&#8217; <\/em>They had a useful leaflet about steps people can take locally to try to help avert disaster. On 21st March 2019 (before the local elections) The Vale of White Horse District Council joined a growing number of local authorities in declaring a climate emergency.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19060101.jpg\" alt=\"Fun in The Park\" \/><br \/>\nTim, the new curator of the Abbey Buildings, was out in a monk&#8217;s outfit.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19060103.jpg\" alt=\"Fun in The Park\" \/><br \/>\nThere were over twenty community groups with stalls with games and information. <a href=\"https:\/\/homestart-southernoxfordshire.org.uk\/\">Home Start Southern Oxfordshire<\/a> are a voluntary home-visiting scheme, which supports families with at least one child under five. They have been operating for thirty years in the area, and ensure families get the right volunteer, and always see the same person.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19060120.jpg\" alt=\"Fun in The Park\" \/><br \/>\nThankyou to Steve from the Friends of Radley Lakes for this picture of a winner of a Teddy on the Tombola.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19060102.jpg\" alt=\"Fun in The Park\" \/><br \/>\nThere were lots of activities such as bouncing castles, a climbing wall, and crafts.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19060104.jpg\" alt=\"Fun in The Park\" \/><br \/>\nOn the main stage, which will be used by Music in the Park this evening, there was a variety of entertainments. I saw a swing band, Scottish Dancing, and the Abingdon Music Centre Community Orchestra &#8211; pictured above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a lovely sunny day and lots of people went to the Abbey Gardens for Fun in the Park. Near the entrance, extinction rebellion had a quote from David Attenborough: &#8216;The collapse of civilisation and the natural world is on the horizon.&#8217; They had a useful leaflet about steps people can take locally to [&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-22660","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\/22660","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=22660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}