{"id":23035,"date":"2019-08-17T20:46:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T19:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23035"},"modified":"2019-08-17T20:46:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T19:46:26","slug":"chilli-festival-didcot-power-station-and-springfield-drive-open-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23035","title":{"rendered":"Chilli Festival, Didcot Power Station and Springfield Drive Open Garden."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19081704.jpg\" alt=\"Chilli Festival\" \/><br \/>\nThe Oxfordshire Chilli Festival was happening on Abingdon Market Place today.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19081736.jpg\" alt=\"Chilli Festival\" \/><br \/>\nIt was also the last day that the last 3 Didcot Power Station cooling towers were visible from the County Hall roof. They are scheduled for demolition tomorrow morning between 6-8am.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19081710.jpg\" alt=\"Chilli Festival\" \/><br \/>\nThis is how they looked today from the Sustrans cycle path between Sutton Courtney and Didcot.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19081709.jpg\" alt=\"Chilli Festival\" \/><br \/>\nThere was also an open garden at the exotic garden at 53 Springfield Drive, and they had lots of visitors.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19081732.jpg\" alt=\"Chilli Festival\" \/><br \/>\nand lots of plants to admire for visitors, and cakes to eat. Donations and proceeds go to Maggie&#8217;s Cancer Centre and Blue Cross.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19081701.jpg\" alt=\"Chilli Festival\" \/><br \/>\nBack at the Chilli Festival there were chilli plants for sale,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19081705.jpg\" alt=\"Chilli Festival\" \/><br \/>\nchillies, and many different chilli sauces and foods cooked with chilli.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19081721.jpg\" alt=\"Chilli Festival\" \/><br \/>\nBands played throughout the day followed by the chilli eating competition.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19081720.jpg\" alt=\"Chilli Festival\" \/><br \/>\nAfter all other competitors had been eliminated the last two competitors could not be separated and so they were given a pint cup full of chillies to see who could eat them the fastest.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19081718.jpg\" alt=\"Chilli Festival\" \/><br \/>\nThe winner, by a half pint, was last year&#8217;s returning champion, the Queen of Chilli, Shahina.<\/p>\n<p>Proceeds go to Mind &#8211; the Mental Health Charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxfordshire Chilli Festival was happening on Abingdon Market Place today. It was also the last day that the last 3 Didcot Power Station cooling towers were visible from the County Hall roof. They are scheduled for demolition tomorrow morning between 6-8am. This is how they looked today from the Sustrans cycle path between Sutton [&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-23035","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\/23035","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=23035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}