{"id":230,"date":"2009-09-13T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2009\/09\/13\/heritage-day-2009\/"},"modified":"2009-09-13T16:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T16:42:00","slug":"heritage-day-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Day 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09091302.jpg\" \/><br \/>The proceedings kicked off with dancing from the Abingdon Traditional Morris Men.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09091304.jpg\" \/><br \/>Carswell Old School was open along with 13 other buildings. At Carswell there was a mixture of new children&#8217;s artwork and historic school photographs, computers and writing slates.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09091309.jpg\" \/><br \/>Down in the museum basement the old town water pump was on display.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09091313.jpg\" \/><br \/>Most of the museum staff were in costume, and two young Tudor ladies can be seen escourting our local Member of Parliament, Dr Evan Harris.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09091311.jpg\" \/><br \/>In the Abbey Grounds the Lost Abbey of Abingdon Project were doing underground scanning to find out better where the old Abbey walls lay.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09091310.jpg\" \/><br \/>Next to Beth Flemming, deputy chairman of the Vale District, is a monk from the lost Abbey. That&#8217;s me by the way. I got lots of people saying things like &#8216;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">That&#8217;s a terrible habit you have got<\/span>&#8216; or &#8216;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">You will have to control your habit<\/span>&#8216; and much much more. I smiled meekly &#8211; as one does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proceedings kicked off with dancing from the Abingdon Traditional Morris Men.Carswell Old School was open along with 13 other buildings. At Carswell there was a mixture of new children&#8217;s artwork and historic school photographs, computers and writing slates.Down in the museum basement the old town water pump was on display.Most of the museum staff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","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=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}