{"id":25050,"date":"2006-04-02T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-02T12:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/04\/02\/abingdon-traditional-morris-dancers\/"},"modified":"2006-04-02T12:33:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-02T12:33:00","slug":"abingdon-traditional-morris-dancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25050","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06040201.jpg\" \/><br \/>There was a visit today from cameramen, a soundman, and a presenter from a BBC2 culture program to film the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06040202.jpg\" \/><br \/>This well known Abingdonian has taken on the part of &#8220;The fool&#8221;.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06040203.jpg\" \/><br \/>Two other well known members of the Morris men are the current &#8220;Mayor&#8221; of Ock Street &#8211; the name given to their leader, and his predecessor for many years &#8211; and still dancing into his eighties.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06040204.jpg\" \/><br \/>The &#8220;Mayor&#8221; is elected by the inhabitants of Ock Street.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06040205.jpg\" \/><br \/>The final picture from beneath the County Hall, this lunchtime, shows the Mayor of Abingdon, and one of the Freemen of Abingdon &#8211; there are three Freemen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a visit today from cameramen, a soundman, and a presenter from a BBC2 culture program to film the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers.This well known Abingdonian has taken on the part of &#8220;The fool&#8221;.Two other well known members of the Morris men are the current &#8220;Mayor&#8221; of Ock Street &#8211; the name given to [&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-25050","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\/25050","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=25050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}