{"id":26702,"date":"2021-01-28T21:53:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T21:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26702"},"modified":"2021-01-28T21:53:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T21:53:17","slug":"abingdon-oh-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26702","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon, Oh Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thankyou to Margaret for this poem about Abingdon. In October I will produce a book called ‘Ten poems about Abingdon’ which will include ten poems selected and edited by a local published poet.
\n\"Lidl\"
\nAbingdon, Oh Abingdon, what a lovely place to live,
\nYou’ve seen so much and have so much to give.
\nYou started as a crossing across the river Thames,
\nthen the monks came along and chose the spot
\nto build their abbey, which gave the folk a lot
\nof work and commerce, stability and peace,
\ntill Henry declared that all abbeys should cease.
\nChaos ensued, but in their place
\nChurches were built, the Market came, life went on apace.
\nStreets and alleyways were erected up and down
\ntill Abingdon was declared the County town.<\/p>\n

The iconic County Hall was erected too
\nand things all around were bursting with life.
\nFactories were built with jobs for all comers
\nin winter, spring and through all summers.
\nWars were fought, camps were built
\nwith local men called to fight to the hilt,
\nthen after the war Morris cars were built.<\/p>\n

The river flowed on, pleasure boats were seen
\nand Abingdon people were always keen
\nto catch the Thrown Buns, a novel way we note
\nto celebrate events. And now when another
\nperil threatens our lives we all work together.
\nWe help each other with shopping and chores
\nas most of us cannot go outdoors.
\nSo live on, Abingdon, your history shows
\nthat you survived all these years
\nand will continue to do so, despite all our fears.<\/p>\n

Margaret Langsford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thankyou to Margaret for this poem about Abingdon. In October I will produce a book called ‘Ten poems about Abingdon’ which will include ten poems selected and edited by a local published poet. Abingdon, Oh Abingdon, what a lovely place to live, You’ve seen so much and have so much to give. You started as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems-about-abingdon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26702","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=26702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}