{"id":33103,"date":"2024-12-23T22:56:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T22:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33103"},"modified":"2024-12-23T22:56:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T22:56:08","slug":"more-creative-christmas-displays-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33103","title":{"rendered":"More Creative Christmas Displays in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024122313.jpg \" \/><br \/>\nOver one house, on the Radley Road, is a cut-out of a Santa Claus climbing up the side of the chimney. Below, is a reindeer with a sleigh filled with presents.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024122306.jpg \" \/><br \/>\nThe workhouse estate have a Advent Window Calendar to help raise money for Helen and Douglas House. They began with &#8216;one&#8217; on the Oxford Road and &#8216;A Cracker!&#8217; .<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024122307.jpg \" \/><br \/>\nUnlike South Avenue that has three or four entries for each day, the Workhouse Estate has just one a day, and day 15 in Abbot Road shows the Grinch, dressed in a Santa outfit, stealing a Christmas tree. His loyal dog Max wears antlers.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024122311.jpg \" \/><br \/>\nThe Fitzharry&#8217;s Estate also has an Advent Window Calendar but I did not see if they are collecting for charity. On Friday 13th a house in Letcombe Avenue has a reindeer crashing through the window &#8211; half in and half out.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024122310.jpg \" \/><br \/>\nToday, the 23rd, a house window on Fitzharry&#8217;s Road shows the Three Wise Men from the nativity story. Guided by a shining star, they journey with gifts, believing they are traveling to greet a great King. Instead, their path leads them to a stable, where they find a new-born baby lying in a feeding trough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over one house, on the Radley Road, is a cut-out of a Santa Claus climbing up the side of the chimney. Below, is a reindeer with a sleigh filled with presents. The workhouse estate have a Advent Window Calendar to help raise money for Helen and Douglas House. They began with &#8216;one&#8217; on the Oxford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33103","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=33103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}