{"id":23564,"date":"2019-11-16T23:11:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T22:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23564"},"modified":"2019-11-16T23:11:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T22:11:19","slug":"on-dry-land-in-abingdon-this-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23564","title":{"rendered":"On Dry Land in Abingdon this Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19111615.jpg\" alt=\"On Dry Land\" \/><br \/>\nIn St Helen&#8217;s Church centre the Friend&#8217;s of Abingdon Community Hospital held their AGM and raffle draw. The big prize was a Miele Vacuum cleaner. There were lots of other prizes. Wyn, seated nearest the camera, was delighted to be taking back a prize to a neighbour to whom she sold the ticket.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19111616.jpg\" alt=\"On Dry Land\" \/><br \/>\nIn St Ethelwold&#8217;s House the Abbey Artists have an exhibition this weekend. I got talking to Dougie Simpson who does those lovely pictures of Abingdon that are sketched painting with outlines in pen and ink.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19111617.jpg\" alt=\"On Dry Land\" \/><br \/>\nOn the Market Place the Kennington Memory Club had a stall. The Alzheimer&#8217;s Club in Abingdon closed down, and Kennington have taken over running a day centre with activities.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19111618.jpg\" alt=\"On Dry Land\" \/><br \/>\nIan, of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordwaits.com\/\">Oxford Waits<\/a>, was busking in Bury Street. The Oxford Waits had a successful sell-out concert at the Unicorn Theatre last night. I am told there was a great atmosphere. I got there with ten minutes to spare. The man at the door said to the couple ahead of me &#8216;<i>You are lucky. Two tickets left.<\/i>&#8216; Then told me, &#8216;<i>Sorry! Sold out.<\/i>&#8216;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In St Helen&#8217;s Church centre the Friend&#8217;s of Abingdon Community Hospital held their AGM and raffle draw. The big prize was a Miele Vacuum cleaner. There were lots of other prizes. Wyn, seated nearest the camera, was delighted to be taking back a prize to a neighbour to whom she sold the ticket. In St [&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-23564","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\/23564","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=23564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}