{"id":22832,"date":"2019-07-06T20:54:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T19:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22832"},"modified":"2019-07-06T20:54:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T19:54:20","slug":"mr-hemmings-day-of-dance-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22832","title":{"rendered":"Mr Hemmings Day of Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19070600.jpg\" alt=\"Day of Dance\" \/><br \/>\nThe annual Day of Dance today in Abingdon was hosted by&nbsp;Mr Hemmings Traditional Abingdon Morris Dancers. Their invited guests were Armaleggan and Ashnah.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19070601.jpg\" alt=\"Day of Dance\" \/><br \/>\nArmalleggan are a rowdy stick bashing Border Morris side who practise in Cumnor.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19070602.jpg\" alt=\"Day of Dance\" \/><br \/>\nAshnah are tribal style belly dancers, and come from Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19070605.jpg\" alt=\"Day of Dance\" \/><br \/>\nThe day is organised by Mr Les Badcock &#8211; a life long Abingdonian.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19070607.jpg\" alt=\"Day of Dance\" \/><br \/>\nThe day had a family feel with quite a few children of members following the event. There were occasions when everybody could join in the dance and the children loved that.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19070609.jpg\" alt=\"Day of Dance\" \/><br \/>\nThe Day started at Annie&#8217;s Tea Room and ended at the Royal British Legion car park. They also danced at the Broad Face, the Market Place twice, the Black Swan and Brewery Tap.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19070611.jpg\" alt=\"Day of Dance\" \/><br \/>\nThe Mr Hemmings dancers have been encouraging ladies to join in for two or three years, and this year there was also one or two younger dancers. <\/p>\n<p>The day of dance used to be on the Saturday nearest the birthday of the original Mr Tom Hemmings in early May. The move to early July happened in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Day of Dance today in Abingdon was hosted by&nbsp;Mr Hemmings Traditional Abingdon Morris Dancers. Their invited guests were Armaleggan and Ashnah. Armalleggan are a rowdy stick bashing Border Morris side who practise in Cumnor. Ashnah are tribal style belly dancers, and come from Abingdon. The day is organised by Mr Les Badcock &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22832","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=22832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}