{"id":24179,"date":"2020-03-01T10:11:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T09:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24179"},"modified":"2020-03-01T10:11:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T09:11:21","slug":"welsh-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24179","title":{"rendered":"March 1st &#8211; St David\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Trinity Church is anything to go by, a lot of people here in Abingdon have Welsh roots and still mark March 1st &#8211; St David\u2019s Day &#8211; in some way. Some people may pin a daffodil or a leek to their clothes as these are symbols of Wales.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2030103.jpg\" alt=\"St David's Day\" \/><br \/>\nThe Local Excellence Market was held yesterday in Abingdon. It was smaller than usual but vibrant. On the fruit and veg stall were lots of leeks. Most were as straight as those you might get at a supermarket. Others had grown with a distinct curve.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2030102.jpg\" alt=\"St David's Day\" \/><br \/>\nI came away with a very fine curving example. One traditional meal on St David&#8217;s Day is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/food\/recipes\/cawl_92334\">Cawl<\/a>. It is a soup that is made of leek and other locally grown produce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Trinity Church is anything to go by, a lot of people here in Abingdon have Welsh roots and still mark March 1st &#8211; St David\u2019s Day &#8211; in some way. Some people may pin a daffodil or a leek to their clothes as these are symbols of Wales. The Local Excellence Market was held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24179","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=24179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}