{"id":25322,"date":"2006-11-22T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/11\/22\/not-like-every-year\/"},"modified":"2006-11-22T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-22T21:30:00","slug":"not-like-every-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25322","title":{"rendered":"Not like every year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/1600\/chmastree02.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/320\/chmastree02.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Final Preparations for Abingdon&#8217;s Big Day on Friday. As in every other year, lights are draped around the trees in the market place&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/1600\/chmastree03.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/320\/chmastree03.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Like every year there was somebody directing the proceedings and saying &#8220;A bit further that way.. no back a bit this way&#8230; no a bit that way&#8230;&#8221;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/1600\/chmastree04.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/320\/chmastree04.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Like every year it ended with lights being put round the tree&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What will be  different about turning on the lights this year is that Friday is the very day 450 years ago, 24th November 1556, when a Horseback rider, from London, presented the Charter to the town of Abingdon. This year that horseback ride is to be re-enacted: not all the way, of course, but at least the last fifty yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final Preparations for Abingdon&#8217;s Big Day on Friday. As in every other year, lights are draped around the trees in the market place&#8230;Like every year there was somebody directing the proceedings and saying &#8220;A bit further that way.. no back a bit this way&#8230; no a bit that way&#8230;&#8221;Like every year it ended with lights [&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-25322","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\/25322","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=25322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}