{"id":23666,"date":"2019-12-04T22:50:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T21:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23666"},"modified":"2019-12-04T22:50:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T21:50:01","slug":"shop-local-this-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23666","title":{"rendered":"Shop Local this Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19120403.jpg\" alt=\"Shop Local this Christmas\" \/><br \/>\nThursday 5 pm to 8 pm&nbsp;&nbsp;is a late shopping night on Stert Street and some other independent shops.<\/p>\n<p>Then Saturday is Small Business Saturday &#8211; with civic car parks free. There is also a Christmas Craft Market all day Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Free parking also happens on 14th and 21st December &#8211; to encourage us to do some Christmas Shopping in the Town Centre.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19120401.jpg\" alt=\"Shop Local this Christmas\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon Beer Festival returns to the Abbey Buildings on Friday and Saturday.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19120402.jpg\" alt=\"Shop Local this Christmas\" \/><br \/>\nAlso on Saturday 7th December Abingdon Town Band have their Christmas Concert.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19120301.jpg\" alt=\"Shop Local this Christmas\" \/><br \/>\nThen on Sunday, Fourhorsemen events told me &#8216;<i>We&#8217;ll have many stalls selling many different items and a kitchen offering a variety of different foods.<\/i>&#8216;&nbsp; Looking at their facebook page they try to attract stalls selling antiques, collectibles, and crafts.<\/p>\n<p>With Christmas on its way, one could easily forget there is a general election. The result will be announced on Friday 13th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 5 pm to 8 pm&nbsp;&nbsp;is a late shopping night on Stert Street and some other independent shops. Then Saturday is Small Business Saturday &#8211; with civic car parks free. There is also a Christmas Craft Market all day Saturday. Free parking also happens on 14th and 21st December &#8211; to encourage us to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23666","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=23666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}