{"id":33168,"date":"2025-01-05T17:30:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T17:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33168"},"modified":"2025-01-05T17:30:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T17:30:47","slug":"a-touch-of-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33168","title":{"rendered":"An Angel in the Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2025010502.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon saw its first snow of the winter. While there wasn\u2019t enough to build snowmen in Albert Park, the light covering left the ground white, and dogs and their owners left tracks.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2025010501.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBy morning, rain was falling, melting the snow. The large Christmas decoration outside the Guildhall \u2014 an angel from one angle, and a tree from all other angles \u2014 was lit up with its large snowflake. <\/p>\n<p>Tonight, on Twelfth Night, the town centre decorations will shine for the last time this Christmas. But as their lights fade, may the warmth and hope of this season carry us through the year ahead, guiding us to brighter days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abingdon saw its first snow of the winter. While there wasn\u2019t enough to build snowmen in Albert Park, the light covering left the ground white, and dogs and their owners left tracks. By morning, rain was falling, melting the snow. The large Christmas decoration outside the Guildhall \u2014 an angel from one angle, and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33168","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=33168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}