{"id":26255,"date":"2020-11-11T21:03:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T21:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26255"},"modified":"2020-11-11T21:03:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T21:03:13","slug":"armistice-day-tribute-and-christmas-light-switch-on-happen-unannounced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26255","title":{"rendered":"Armistice Day Tribute and Christmas Light switch on &#8211; happen unannounced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020111100.jpg\" alt=\"Armistice Day\" \/><br \/>\nThe Pandemic did not stop people gathering round the war memorial to remember Armistice Day. At eleven o&#8217;clock on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, people stood and traffic came to a stop for the two-minute silence at Abingdon War Memorial.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020111101.jpg\" alt=\"Armistice Day\" \/><br \/>\nThe giant poppies have been switched on for the last few days near the war memorial.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020111102.jpg\" alt=\"Armistice Day\" \/><br \/>\nThe lights in Bury Street have also been on.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020111103.jpg\" alt=\"Armistice Day\" \/><br \/>\nThis afternoon, and evening, the rest of the Christmas lights came on unannounced in Abingdon Town Centre.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020111105.jpg\" alt=\"Armistice Day\" \/><br \/>\nIn normal times, hundreds of people would have gathered around the Market Place, after a day of entertainment, to watch as a celebrity switched on the lights. <\/p>\n<p>Many local businesses cannot get the full benefit until the 2nd December, when they can fully re-open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pandemic did not stop people gathering round the war memorial to remember Armistice Day. At eleven o&#8217;clock on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, people stood and traffic came to a stop for the two-minute silence at Abingdon War Memorial. The giant poppies have been switched on for the last few days near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26255","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=26255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}