{"id":25369,"date":"2006-12-20T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/12\/20\/abingdon-mummers\/"},"modified":"2006-12-20T22:43:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T22:43:00","slug":"abingdon-mummers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25369","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Mummers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RYhiiCon2HI\/AAAAAAAAAXs\/NKpy4jYo7JA\/s1600-h\/061219mum01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RYhiiCon2HI\/AAAAAAAAAXs\/NKpy4jYo7JA\/s320\/061219mum01.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5010362922412005490\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The Abingdon Mummers perform every year on or about the winter solstice. This evening they were doing a tour of Abingdon pubs and clubs. I caught up with them at the Old Anchor and followed them to the Con. Club.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RYhiiSon2II\/AAAAAAAAAX0\/GmIJmX4ks-U\/s1600-h\/061219mum09.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RYhiiSon2II\/AAAAAAAAAX0\/GmIJmX4ks-U\/s320\/061219mum09.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5010362926706972802\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The play they perform is short, with lots of jokes, sword fighting, and healing of people killed in sword fights. It ends with a rousing &#8220;We wish you a merry Christmas&#8221; after which collecting boxes are taken round  for this year&#8217;s charity: The Alzheimers Club<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RYhiiion2JI\/AAAAAAAAAX8\/ZHgCiCww770\/s1600-h\/061219mum10.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_9voh_13xCGQ\/RYhiiion2JI\/AAAAAAAAAX8\/ZHgCiCww770\/s320\/061219mum10.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5010362931001940114\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I was told &#8220;Mumming is what Morris dancers do during the winter&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abingdon Mummers perform every year on or about the winter solstice. This evening they were doing a tour of Abingdon pubs and clubs. I caught up with them at the Old Anchor and followed them to the Con. Club.The play they perform is short, with lots of jokes, sword fighting, and healing of people [&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-25369","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\/25369","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=25369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}