{"id":25780,"date":"2020-08-03T11:36:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T11:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25780"},"modified":"2020-08-03T11:36:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T11:36:39","slug":"marks-wildflower-meadow-at-st-ethelwolds-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25780","title":{"rendered":"Mark&#8217;s Wildflower Meadow at St Ethelwolds House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20080309.jpg\" alt=\"Mark's Wildflower Meadow\" \/><br \/>\nSt Ethelwolds&#8217; House and garden, in East St Helen Street, is a place of sanctuary and quiet, and the wildflower meadow, at the far end, was sown in memory of Mark Wood (1969 &#8211; 2013), a passionate lover of nature.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20080303.jpg\" alt=\"Mark's Wildflower Meadow\" \/><br \/>\nThe mill stream, cut by monks of Abingdon Abbey, flows just beyond the wildflower garden and soon rejoins the River Thames. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/history\/people\/st-aethelwold\">St Ethelwold<\/a> was the Abbot from 954-963, and reformed Abingdon Abbey as a Benedictine order, before becoming Archbishop of Winchester. <\/p>\n<p>I did see PPJS&#8217;s comment on yesterday&#8217;s post about celebrating St Ethelwold&#8217;s feast day at the start of August and, rather than party, have videoed a few quiet moments at Mark&#8217;s Wildflower Meadow &#8230;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mark&amp;apos;s Wildflower Meadow at St Ethelwolds House, East St Helen Street, Abingdon.\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KanOMxTyEmE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Ethelwolds&#8217; House and garden, in East St Helen Street, is a place of sanctuary and quiet, and the wildflower meadow, at the far end, was sown in memory of Mark Wood (1969 &#8211; 2013), a passionate lover of nature. The mill stream, cut by monks of Abingdon Abbey, flows just beyond the wildflower garden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25780","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=25780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}