{"id":31409,"date":"2023-10-10T09:07:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T08:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31409"},"modified":"2023-10-10T09:07:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T08:07:16","slug":"abingdon-michaelmas-fair-2023-monday-in-words-and-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31409","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Michaelmas Fair 2023 &#8211; Monday in words and pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023100901.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe late afternoon sun brightened the route of the fair along Ock Street and High Street to the Market Place.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023100903.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nCrowds streamed in both directions<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023100908.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nand the sun went down, and darkness came, and the children&#8217;s rides slowed.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023100922.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe bright lights of the bigger fair rides and their pulsing music then vied for people&#8217;s attention.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023100920.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nPersonally, I prefer to watch and take pictures, which is almost as thrilling as going on the rides.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023100916.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nLow scores are better in some places in the fair where scoring under 40 with four darts can win a prize. Under 12 wins a big prize.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023100921.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nCuddly octopus prizes seemed to be a favourite on several stalls. On this one you need to score over 30 for a big octopus but every player gets an octopus.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023100928a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBob Marley reggae music pulsed from a shop at the top of West St Helen Street, its yellow, green, and black balloons celebrating Jamaica. A new caterer, advertising and serving Afro-Caribbean cuisine, will open there and are there for the fair.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023100927.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAnd for those who had not overindulged in chorizos, candy floss, freshly cooked doughnuts, or overly bumpy or upside-down rides, there were also curries, fish and chips, German sausages, and foods from all around the world at the Abingdon Michaelmas Fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late afternoon sun brightened the route of the fair along Ock Street and High Street to the Market Place. Crowds streamed in both directions and the sun went down, and darkness came, and the children&#8217;s rides slowed. The bright lights of the bigger fair rides and their pulsing music then vied for people&#8217;s attention. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31409","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=31409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}