{"id":23170,"date":"2019-09-14T22:31:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T21:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23170"},"modified":"2019-09-14T22:31:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T21:31:17","slug":"from-wild-west-hendred-to-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23170","title":{"rendered":"Ride and Stride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19091414.jpg\" alt=\"Wild West Hendred to Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nRide and Stride was happening all around, and beyond, Abingdon today. It was a chance to visit and go inside some unique historic churches &#8211; including eleven in Abingdon. It was also a chance to see the beautiful countryside around Abingdon and some lovely village churches; and get exercise while raising money for the Oxfordshire Historic Churches Trust.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19091410.jpg\" alt=\"Wild West Hendred to Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nAll Saints Methodist Church, in Abingdon, may not look very historic.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19091409.jpg\" alt=\"Wild West Hendred to Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nbut they have reason to thank the Oxfordshire Historic Churches Trust for a grant towards their recent refurbishment. So they had a notice thanking striders.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19091408.jpg\" alt=\"Wild West Hendred to Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nIn Dry Sandford you will find St Helen&#8217;s Church in the parish of St Helen Without. They need to raise money to repair their roof. After a lightening strike in 1961 the roof was incorrectly repaired and they now need \u00a3500,000 to repair it properly &#8211; a huge amount for them. You can read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sthelensdrysandford.org\">http:\/\/www.sthelensdrysandford.org<\/a>. I expect they will be asking the Oxfordshire Historic Churches Trust to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ride and Stride was happening all around, and beyond, Abingdon today. It was a chance to visit and go inside some unique historic churches &#8211; including eleven in Abingdon. It was also a chance to see the beautiful countryside around Abingdon and some lovely village churches; and get exercise while raising money for the Oxfordshire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23170","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=23170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}