{"id":31147,"date":"2023-08-12T22:39:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T21:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31147"},"modified":"2023-08-12T22:39:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T21:39:27","slug":"modern-statue-of-st-edmund-of-abingdon-in-oxford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31147","title":{"rendered":"Modern Statue of St Edmund of Abingdon in Oxford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023081201.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nA modern statue of St Edmund of Abingdon can be seen in the grounds of St Edmund Hall in Oxford. The statue depicts the saint sitting on a bench, with a book in his hand. St Edmund was a man of learning and humility. He was born in Abingdon in about 1175, and he studied in Oxford before becoming a respected lecturer and eventually Archbishop of Canterbury.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to learn more about St Edmund of Abingdon, you could try the blog of <em>A Clerk of Oxford<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com\/2017\/11\/st-edmund-and-abingdon.html\">https:\/\/aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com\/2017\/11\/st-edmund-and-abingdon.html<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>To see the statue yourself, visit St Edmund Hall, Queen&#8217;s Lane (OX1 4AR), open daily 10:00-16:00 for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A modern statue of St Edmund of Abingdon can be seen in the grounds of St Edmund Hall in Oxford. The statue depicts the saint sitting on a bench, with a book in his hand. St Edmund was a man of learning and humility. He was born in Abingdon in about 1175, and he studied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31147","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=31147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}