{"id":25071,"date":"2006-04-23T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-23T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/04\/23\/st-george-day-parade\/"},"modified":"2006-04-23T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-23T18:45:00","slug":"st-george-day-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25071","title":{"rendered":"St. George Day Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06042301.jpg\" \/><br \/>There was a man in town today with a large St George cross on his front. He complained that Abingdon had no St George flag flying above the civic buildings, on England&#8217;s special day. There were some flying outside a couple of the pubs, and a house in Saxton Road had two flags. Anyway, the man cheered up when he heard there was a parade.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06042302.jpg\" \/><br \/>It was a very impressive parade. I would estimate there were thirty different troops of scouts, guides, cub, brownies, sea-scouts and air cadets. The marched round Abbey Close from the Cattle Market Car Park to the Guildhall where they saluted the Mayor and the Chair of the Vale.<\/p>\n<p>My son was in Oxford, and told me that a parade of Oxford scouts coming over Magdelene bridge were stopped by the police and after arguments sent back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a man in town today with a large St George cross on his front. He complained that Abingdon had no St George flag flying above the civic buildings, on England&#8217;s special day. There were some flying outside a couple of the pubs, and a house in Saxton Road had two flags. Anyway, the [&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-25071","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\/25071","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=25071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}