{"id":25319,"date":"2006-10-25T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/10\/25\/the-circus-is-in-town\/"},"modified":"2006-10-25T19:02:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-25T19:02:00","slug":"the-circus-is-in-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25319","title":{"rendered":"The Circus is in Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/circus%20003.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/circus%20003.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Well actually it is out of town in a field on the perimeter of Abingdon near the Wootton Road. Over this half-term week, the &#8216;Bid Kid&#8217; Circus can be seen in the large big top with the bright lights on top. It looks bigger and better than some of the circuses that I have seen in Abingdon over the years.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/circus%20005.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/circus%20005.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>They boast acts from the Moscow, Ukraine and Bulgarian State Circuses. Which does make me wonder what ever happened to the home grown plate-spinning acts. (Does anybody else remember watching Billy Smart&#8217;s Circus on TV and then going out to light fireworks on November 5th or am I older than everybody out there?)<\/p>\n<p>Still, here, at the big top, in Abingdon, ex-olympic gymnasts are leaping at high speed from bar to bar. And I had better lift the words straight from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigkidcircus.com\/\">The Big Kid Circus site<\/a> because they puts it in a way I never could better&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/circus.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/circus.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>&#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">SERGUEI &#038; KHASSAN &#8211; In their very individual Russian version of Last Night at the Proms! Will have you rockin&#8217; with laughter&#8221;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8220;&#8230;gorgeous NADIA. Watch this fiery beauty perform her enthralling act whilst suspended only by her hair&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/>&#8220;&#8230;Beautiful JULIA the &#8216;Russian Butterfly&#8217;&#8230;<\/span>&#8220;<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/>&#8220;&#8230;an adrenaline pumping display of high-speed gymnastic stunts &#8211; guaranteed to leave their audience wide-eyed in amazement !!&#8230;<\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;not just that but &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">it has a pulsating storyline<\/span>&#8221; for all the Kids and Big Kids out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well actually it is out of town in a field on the perimeter of Abingdon near the Wootton Road. Over this half-term week, the &#8216;Bid Kid&#8217; Circus can be seen in the large big top with the bright lights on top. It looks bigger and better than some of the circuses that I have seen [&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-25319","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\/25319","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=25319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}