{"id":30344,"date":"2023-02-13T00:33:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T23:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30344"},"modified":"2023-02-13T00:33:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T23:33:18","slug":"bench-dedicated-to-bob-wilson-showman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30344","title":{"rendered":"Bench dedicated to &#8216;Bob Wilson &#8211; Showman&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023021201.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAndy said, <em>&#8216;they were replacing the bench on the double mini-roundabouts. Didn\u2019t think much of it until I saw it today. Looks pretty special.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The bench is dedicated to &#8216;Bob Wilson &#8211; Showman &#8211; 1932 &#8211; 1983&#8217;.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Bob Wilson&#8217;s Funfairs continue to organise the Abingdon Michaelmas Fair. Bob Wilson was known as the Funfair king and the chairman of the funfair firm Bob Wilson and sons. He died in a tragic car crash in 1983.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy said, &#8216;they were replacing the bench on the double mini-roundabouts. Didn\u2019t think much of it until I saw it today. Looks pretty special.&#8217; The bench is dedicated to &#8216;Bob Wilson &#8211; Showman &#8211; 1932 &#8211; 1983&#8217;.\u00a0 Bob Wilson&#8217;s Funfairs continue to organise the Abingdon Michaelmas Fair. Bob Wilson was known as the Funfair king [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-street-furniture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30344","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=30344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}