{"id":24954,"date":"2009-08-13T23:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2009\/08\/13\/griff-returns-a-national-treasure\/"},"modified":"2009-08-13T23:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T23:44:00","slug":"griff-returns-a-national-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24954","title":{"rendered":"Griff Returns A National Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06010501.jpg\" \/><br \/>Griff Rhys Jones was last featured back in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/2006\/01\/three-men-in-boat.html\">January 2006<\/a> on this blog.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09081304.jpg\" \/><br \/>He returned to Abingdon to give a talk about his book &#8216;Rivers&#8217;, then answered questions, and signed books.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09081301.jpg\" \/><br \/>Griff was introduced by Mark from Mostly Books as a &#8216;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">National Treasure<\/span>&#8216;.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09081302.jpg\" \/><br \/>Upstairs the Abingdon Scrabble Club were playing in the Bear Room. They meet every Thursday in the Guildhall &#8230;<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09081303.jpg\" \/><br \/>but normally are content to look for treble word scores in the Male Actors&#8217; Changing Room.<\/p>\n<p>It works out quite a bit cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>Griff needed those facilities and so the scrabble players moved to the Bear Room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Griff Rhys Jones was last featured back in January 2006 on this blog.He returned to Abingdon to give a talk about his book &#8216;Rivers&#8217;, then answered questions, and signed books.Griff was introduced by Mark from Mostly Books as a &#8216;National Treasure&#8216;.Upstairs the Abingdon Scrabble Club were playing in the Bear Room. They meet every Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24954","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=24954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}