{"id":34,"date":"2010-03-26T00:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2010\/03\/26\/a-bit-of-the-mayor-of-abingdons-day\/"},"modified":"2010-03-26T00:52:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T00:52:00","slug":"a-bit-of-the-mayor-of-abingdons-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"A bit of The Mayor of Abingdon&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10032605.jpg\" \/><br \/>The Mayor, Patricia Hobby, was there this morning to cut the ribbon and toast Dream Doors, the new kitchen refurbishment business run by <span>Mike &amp; Elaine (centre).<\/span> All the best to them.<\/p>\n<p>The Mayor was also there with her team, most of Abingdon Town Council, to play Phab at carpet bowls and a quiz this evening.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10032604.jpg\" \/><br \/>Nigel Carter, him in the sky blue, runs the Phab club, who meet every Thursday at Christ Church Centre. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phab.org.uk\/\">Phab<\/a>&#8216;s aim is to c<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">reate opportunities for children and adults of all abilities to enjoy life together<\/span>. Nigel makes that &#8216;mission statement&#8217; fun.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10032602.jpg\" \/><br \/>In terms of carpet bowls the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">create opportunities<\/span> bit means that those who have not got as much muscular control as the rest of us can use a bit of guttering to aim the ball.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10032607.jpg\" \/><br \/>At the end of the evening the Mayor presented Nigel with the annual Abingdon Town Council v Phab Trophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayor, Patricia Hobby, was there this morning to cut the ribbon and toast Dream Doors, the new kitchen refurbishment business run by Mike &amp; Elaine (centre). All the best to them. The Mayor was also there with her team, most of Abingdon Town Council, to play Phab at carpet bowls and a quiz this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","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=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}