{"id":31484,"date":"2023-11-04T23:56:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T22:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31484"},"modified":"2023-11-04T23:56:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T22:56:40","slug":"lighting-the-sky-with-abingdon-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31484","title":{"rendered":"Lighting the sky with Abingdon Fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023110410.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe 2nd Abingdon Scouts put on a spectacular fireworks display this evening behind Long Furlong Community Centre. It was a chance to enjoy some loud bangs, see some bright flashes and support a local Scout group. The 2nd Abingdon Scouts have over 100 young people in their activity programmes.<\/p>\n<p>The ground was wet after the previous rain, but the weather was fine this evening. There was a good view of Orion overhead, with its nebula, before the fireworks created their own nebulas.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023110412.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMost of the audience were young families, but there were a few of us trying to recapture the wonder of the fireworks of youth. The smell of gunpowder is even more evocative than the bangs and flashes.<\/p>\n<p>The audience seemed to thoroughly enjoy the fireworks display. There were cheers and gasps during the display and, at the end of the show, an ovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2nd Abingdon Scouts put on a spectacular fireworks display this evening behind Long Furlong Community Centre. It was a chance to enjoy some loud bangs, see some bright flashes and support a local Scout group. The 2nd Abingdon Scouts have over 100 young people in their activity programmes. The ground was wet after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31484","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=31484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}