{"id":29254,"date":"2022-07-12T22:38:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T21:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=29254"},"modified":"2022-07-12T22:38:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T21:38:01","slug":"summer-reading-challenge-by-challenged-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=29254","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reading Challenge (and writing challenge)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022071110.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSince 1999, Abingdon Library has encouraged children to participate in the summer reading challenge, keeping children reading during the summer holidays. In 2020 the theme was Silly Squad. In 2021 it was Wild World Challenge. This is the twentieth year, and the theme &#8216;Gadgeteers&#8217; will spark children&#8217;s curiosity about the world around us. For more information visit <a href=\"https:\/\/summerreadingchallenge.org.uk\/\">https:\/\/summerreadingchallenge.org.uk\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Could I also suggest a writing challenge?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022071111.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIt was so hot at the Monday Market yesterday that many stall holders left early. The meat man went before the meat mutated. The baker left before the bread got toasted. The egg stall left before all the eggs hatched.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022071108.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe flower stall left before the plants wilted.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022071109.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nEven the card shop left before the cards went white.<\/p>\n<p>If anybody is up for a summer writing challenge, send something interesting about Abingdon to backstreet60@gmail.com. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1999, Abingdon Library has encouraged children to participate in the summer reading challenge, keeping children reading during the summer holidays. In 2020 the theme was Silly Squad. In 2021 it was Wild World Challenge. This is the twentieth year, and the theme &#8216;Gadgeteers&#8217; will spark children&#8217;s curiosity about the world around us. For more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29254","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=29254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}