{"id":24154,"date":"2020-02-25T22:20:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T21:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24154"},"modified":"2020-02-25T22:20:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T21:20:20","slug":"abingdon-town-crier-starts-lake-district-pancake-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24154","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Town Crier starts Lake District Pancake Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20022502.jpg\" alt=\"Lake District Pancake Race\" \/><br \/>\nLook closely at this scene from the annual Troutbeck Shrove Tuesday Pancake race and you will see a green figure back along the road (Thank you to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/smoothlakes\/photos\/a.385344582019\/10153079705952020\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Smooth Radio Lake District<\/a> for this picture.)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20022503.jpg\" alt=\"Lake District Pancake Race\" \/><br \/>\nThen look at this picture and you will see a uniform identical to that of an Abingdon Town Crier practising his &#8216;Hear Ye, Hear ye&#8217; in The Lakes. (Thankyou to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RogerDavies24\/status\/301259879644012544\">Roger Davies for this picture<\/a>).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20022504.jpg\" alt=\"Lake District Pancake Race\" \/><br \/>\nFor twenty years an Abingdon Town Crier has been travelling to Troutbeck to assist in their pancake race, and this year will be his last.<\/p>\n<p>Read all about it in the Westmorland Gazette at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk\/news\/18255559.one-last-hurrah-town-crier\/\">https:\/\/www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk\/news\/18255559.one-last-hurrah-town-crier\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you to the Westmorland Gazette for the picture. I did speak to a reporter who said I could use the picture if they owned it and he would check. So all rights reserved to the original owner. He never got back to me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look closely at this scene from the annual Troutbeck Shrove Tuesday Pancake race and you will see a green figure back along the road (Thank you to&nbsp;Smooth Radio Lake District for this picture.) Then look at this picture and you will see a uniform identical to that of an Abingdon Town Crier practising his &#8216;Hear [&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-24154","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\/24154","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=24154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}