{"id":23445,"date":"2019-10-30T21:55:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T20:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23445"},"modified":"2019-10-30T21:55:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T20:55:36","slug":"mellstock-band-to-visit-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23445","title":{"rendered":"Mellstock Band to visit Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19103001.jpg\" alt=\"Mellstock Band\" \/><br \/>\nThe Mellstock Band&nbsp;are performing a show called\u2018Christmas Frolics\u2019 in the Unicorn Theatre, Abingdon on Wednesday 4th December at 7.30. Tickets \u00a315\/\u00a312 (students and under 18)&nbsp; from Mostly books&nbsp; or <a href=\"http:\/\/davetownsendmusic.com\/\">davetownsendmusic.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This will be a celebration of dance, drink and general misbehaviour as carried on at Christmas in many villages until about a hundred years ago, and will include convivial harmony songs, rousing dance music, and Thomas Hardy\u2019s poetry set to local tunes.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Hardy gave a lot of places <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Hardy%27s_Wessex\">new names in his novels<\/a>. Mellstock is his home village Bockhampton. His characters also ventured to Alfredston (Wantage), Christminster (Oxford), and Lumsdon (Cumnor). What would he have called Abingdon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mellstock Band&nbsp;are performing a show called\u2018Christmas Frolics\u2019 in the Unicorn Theatre, Abingdon on Wednesday 4th December at 7.30. Tickets \u00a315\/\u00a312 (students and under 18)&nbsp; from Mostly books&nbsp; or davetownsendmusic.com This will be a celebration of dance, drink and general misbehaviour as carried on at Christmas in many villages until about a hundred years ago, [&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-23445","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\/23445","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=23445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}