{"id":28979,"date":"2022-06-02T22:02:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T21:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28979"},"modified":"2022-06-02T22:02:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T21:02:23","slug":"a-service-of-celebration-for-the-platinum-jubilee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28979","title":{"rendered":"A Service of Celebration for the Platinum Jubilee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022060226.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAt St Helen&#8217;s Church this evening, there was a service to celebrate &#8216;<em>the incomparable event of the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II&#8217;<\/em>. There was a packed church and a large choir.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022060224.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe choir sang the Introit &#8216;Zadok the Priest&#8217; &#8211; from the coronation.<\/p>\n<p>The Mayor could not do his reading, so Councillor Jim Halliday read instead. It was said the Mayor has Covid.<\/p>\n<p>In the sermon, Revd Masheder began by recalling the day when he watched the coronation as a small child. He said that Seventy years ago, more people believed than now. He had the hope people would rediscover faith.<\/p>\n<p>The choir then sang the anthem &#8216;I was Glad&#8217; &#8211; from the coronation.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022060221.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe service ended with singing the National Anthem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At St Helen&#8217;s Church this evening, there was a service to celebrate &#8216;the incomparable event of the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II&#8217;. There was a packed church and a large choir. The choir sang the Introit &#8216;Zadok the Priest&#8217; &#8211; from the coronation. The Mayor could not do his reading, so Councillor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jubilee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28979","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=28979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}