{"id":32079,"date":"2024-03-29T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32079"},"modified":"2024-03-29T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T22:02:00","slug":"good-friday-procession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32079","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday Procession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024032902.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon commemorated Good Friday with a Walk of Witness, drawing participants from the town&#8217;s churches. Organised by the Church in Abingdon, the event has become a tradition for decades, uniting the Christian community.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024032904.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nDespite the earlier rain, the skies cleared as the procession, led by a large wooden cross, made its way through the precinct. The symbolic walk ended in the Market Place, where a crowd gathered for a short message delivered by Pastor Ellie Ball of the Vineyard Church. Traditional Easter hymns were then sung on the day when Christians remember Jesus Christ being crucified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abingdon commemorated Good Friday with a Walk of Witness, drawing participants from the town&#8217;s churches. Organised by the Church in Abingdon, the event has become a tradition for decades, uniting the Christian community. Despite the earlier rain, the skies cleared as the procession, led by a large wooden cross, made its way through the precinct. [&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-32079","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\/32079","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=32079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}