{"id":33119,"date":"2024-12-27T00:05:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T00:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33119"},"modified":"2024-12-27T00:05:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T00:05:51","slug":"boxing-day-mg-social-meeting-on-abingdon-market-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33119","title":{"rendered":"Boxing Day MG Social Meeting on Abingdon Market Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024122656.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Market Place began filling up with MGs from around 10 and\u00a0 Richard and Gill Martin were there as always with their MGB. The day was mild and mostly dry. Costa and Starbucks were open serving coffee.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024122650.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe newest MG was a MG Cyberster, an all-electric, two-seater sports car, with styling influenced by cars such as the MGB with futuristic elements such as the scissor doors. It has been launched on the hundredth anniversary of the MG Marque. MG&#8217;s parent company is currently SAIC Motor (Shanghai Automobile Industry Corporation).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024122653.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIan Wright helped to ensure all the cars could were positioned so that anybody who needed to leave could leave without too much trouble.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024122654.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAt the point I counted there were 41 cars on the Market Place but others came and went during the morning. The total could have been nearer 50.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024122655.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThis owner has a MG T.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024122651.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBehind Ian and his dog <em>MG<\/em> is Bridget the Midget, one of the MG Midgets.<\/p>\n<p>He said there was a lovely turnout with lots of variety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Market Place began filling up with MGs from around 10 and\u00a0 Richard and Gill Martin were there as always with their MGB. The day was mild and mostly dry. Costa and Starbucks were open serving coffee. The newest MG was a MG Cyberster, an all-electric, two-seater sports car, with styling influenced by cars such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-place","category-mg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33119","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=33119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}