{"id":25296,"date":"2006-10-10T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/10\/10\/abingdon-fair-froggit\/"},"modified":"2006-10-10T21:12:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T21:12:00","slug":"abingdon-fair-froggit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25296","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Fair &#8211; Froggit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/funftue06.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/funftue06.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>The fair begins near the White Horse pub. The road is stopped up here, and cars have to find another way round.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/funftue30.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/funftue30.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>It usually involves driving round in circles.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/funftue28.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/funftue28.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>And not getting home for your tea.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/funftue29.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/funftue29.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>This stall always does a good trade. The chap on the microphone says &#8220;Come on Boys and Girls! Chance to win a big prize!&#8221; and he has got your childrens attention and yours&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/funftue24.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/funftue24.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Some parents end up carrying a large giraffe around for the rest of the evening&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/funftue23.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/funftue23.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>For others, when the man on the microphone asks the child &#8220;What you gonna choose? What you gonna choose?&#8221; end up with &#8220;The Big Froggy! &#8220;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/xfunftue26.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/xfunftue26.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Which leads us neatly on to this ride. Froggit was this years replacement for the &#8216;Jump and Smile&#8217; ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fair begins near the White Horse pub. The road is stopped up here, and cars have to find another way round.It usually involves driving round in circles.And not getting home for your tea.This stall always does a good trade. The chap on the microphone says &#8220;Come on Boys and Girls! Chance to win a [&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-25296","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\/25296","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=25296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}