{"id":26536,"date":"2021-01-06T08:21:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T08:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26536"},"modified":"2021-01-06T08:21:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T08:21:54","slug":"re-entering-lockdown-and-epiphany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26536","title":{"rendered":"Re-entering Lockdown and Epiphany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21010518.jpg\" alt=\"Epiphany\" \/><br \/>\nPeople were talking about going into Tier 5 after the dramatic rise in Covid-19 cases following the spread of the new strain. Instead of going through any more tiers the Prime Minister has announced that we are re-entering lockdown. Schools will be off from today. Many were off yesterday. At least schools will be a little better prepared for online lessons this time, but not everybody will be able to follow.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21010520.jpg\" alt=\"Epiphany\" \/><br \/>\nMost of the town center Christmas lights did not come on last night. <\/p>\n<p>Today is Epiphany &#8211; celebrating the three wise men, or kings, visiting the infant Jesus. We still use the word <em>epiphany<\/em> for a sudden revelation. The Abingdon Share a Poem group will meet via Zoom and has the theme of <em>Epiphanies<\/em>. One poem they might read is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/44395\/gods-grandeur\">God&#8217;s Grandeur by Gerald Manley Hopkins.<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21010516.jpg\" alt=\"Epiphany\" \/><br \/>\nOur window has shown an epiphany scene since that start of advent. The materials to make the scene came from Prices the Stationer: black card for the figures, crepe paper for the desert and haloes, cellophane for the starry sky, and PVA glue to stick it to the window.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21010519.jpg\" alt=\"Epiphany\" \/><br \/>\nThe crepe paper is loosing its colour due to condensation, and two of the wise men have slid down. Later today or tomorrow we will take it down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People were talking about going into Tier 5 after the dramatic rise in Covid-19 cases following the spread of the new strain. Instead of going through any more tiers the Prime Minister has announced that we are re-entering lockdown. Schools will be off from today. Many were off yesterday. At least schools will be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26536","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=26536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}