{"id":28268,"date":"2021-11-27T15:26:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T14:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28268"},"modified":"2021-11-27T15:26:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T14:26:26","slug":"st-helens-church-christmas-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28268","title":{"rendered":"St Helen&#8217;s Church Christmas Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today would have been the Christmas Extravaganza but that is not happening this year.<\/p>\n<p>Instead there was the St Helen&#8217;s Christmas Fair in the church<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"St Helen&amp;apos;s Church, Abingdon, Hand Bells\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d22EXasVLoc?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><br \/>\nThe Hand Bell ringers provided music. They are not doing as many gigs round care homes and fetes as usual this year, but they did St Michael&#8217;s Christmas Fair last week and were at St Helen&#8217;s this week.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021112703.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOutside we had snow for a few minutes. Relations up north had a proper snow fall.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021112707.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Mother Christmases ran the raffle.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021112705.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere was a place for refreshments and stalls in the riverside aisle, and books and jigsaws in the centre neare the alter. The Christmas Tree is already up and lit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today would have been the Christmas Extravaganza but that is not happening this year. Instead there was the St Helen&#8217;s Christmas Fair in the church The Hand Bell ringers provided music. They are not doing as many gigs round care homes and fetes as usual this year, but they did St Michael&#8217;s Christmas Fair last [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28268","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=28268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}