{"id":33527,"date":"2025-03-22T20:15:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T20:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33527"},"modified":"2025-03-22T20:15:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T20:15:32","slug":"three-markets-one-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33527","title":{"rendered":"Three Markets, One Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025032305c.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOne day after the Farmers&#8217; Market, Abingdon hosted a Local Excellence Market. The Town Crier was once more ringing out a warm welcome, encouraging people to shop locally rather than online.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025032301a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMartin had a stall showcasing his photographs. Among the visitors was the lady featured walking up St Helen&#8217;s Wharf in the snow \u2014 a scene from one of his most celebrated winter pictures. Martin had also been at the Farmers Market and will be at the Monday Market.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025032303.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBusby Bees, a regular presence at both the Farmers&#8217; Market and the Local Excellence Market, were notably absent from yesterday&#8217;s event. David said that it was the first Farmers&#8217; Market he had missed in a long time.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025032304.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nClare Cross shared her enjoyment of the Local Excellence Market, saying that it is usually busy. She had a selection of artworks on sale at half price, with proceeds going toward an animal sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p>All these markets continue to be an important part of Abingdon life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day after the Farmers&#8217; Market, Abingdon hosted a Local Excellence Market. The Town Crier was once more ringing out a warm welcome, encouraging people to shop locally rather than online. Martin had a stall showcasing his photographs. Among the visitors was the lady featured walking up St Helen&#8217;s Wharf in the snow \u2014 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":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-place"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33527","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=33527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}