{"id":31267,"date":"2023-09-09T22:34:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T21:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31267"},"modified":"2023-09-09T22:34:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T21:34:17","slug":"hitch-hikers-guide-to-ride-and-stride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31267","title":{"rendered":"Ride and Stride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023090905.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIn Oxfordshire, a fundraising event called Ride and Stride takes place each year.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023090907.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThis year&#8217;s Ride and Stride was a bit different from the others. It was the hottest day of the year, and automotive traffic was gridlocked in places, most notably a place called Abingdon because of road works on the Drayton Road, a notorious black spot for traffic. But that didn&#8217;t stop the intrepid cyclists, walkers, and mobility scooters from making their way to the different churches.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023090908.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOne typical church in Abingdon is Trinity Church. The church welcomed visitors from Abingdon, Drayton, Hagbourne, Harwell, Milton, Oxford, Peppard, Sutton Courtney, and West Hendred.<\/p>\n<p>One family visiting Trinity included a young boy who was interested in exploring the flower beds. After a short time, he returned with a collection of artifacts, including part of a clay pipe dating from about 1700 AD, part of a bone, and part of a roof tile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Oxfordshire, a fundraising event called Ride and Stride takes place each year. This year&#8217;s Ride and Stride was a bit different from the others. It was the hottest day of the year, and automotive traffic was gridlocked in places, most notably a place called Abingdon because of road works on the Drayton Road, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31267","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=31267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}