{"id":33857,"date":"2025-06-14T23:01:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T22:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33857"},"modified":"2025-06-14T23:01:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T22:01:25","slug":"abingdon-celebrates-25-years-of-church-twinning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33857","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Celebrates 25 Years of Church Twinning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025061408.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon Church Twinning group are marking 25 years of church twinning this weekend. Visitors have come from Sint-Niklaas in Belgium, Argentan in France, and Schongau in Germany.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025061409.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOn Friday, visitors had a chance to explore Oxford or Blenheim Palace, followed by a supper featuring Shepherd\u2019s Pie \u2014 in six or seven varieties. One vegetarian Shepherd&#8217;s Pie was brought in a cycle-basket by Richard. Shepherd&#8217;s Pie was followed by strawberries and cream, which may explain one Abingdon supermarket being low on strawberries today.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025061410.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOn Saturday, the group toured Abingdon. Although they didn\u2019t get to see the Abingdon Air and Country Show, they could hear the aircraft buzzing about and imagine the scene from our\u00a0 descriptions.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the weekend will draw to a close with a goodbye service and a reception at St Edmund\u2019s Church, after a day with their host families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abingdon Church Twinning group are marking 25 years of church twinning this weekend. Visitors have come from Sint-Niklaas in Belgium, Argentan in France, and Schongau in Germany. On Friday, visitors had a chance to explore Oxford or Blenheim Palace, followed by a supper featuring Shepherd\u2019s Pie \u2014 in six or seven varieties. One vegetarian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twinning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33857","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=33857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}