{"id":34057,"date":"2025-08-02T13:12:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34057"},"modified":"2025-08-02T13:12:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:12:59","slug":"morris-dancing-and-peace-group-on-the-market-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34057","title":{"rendered":"Morris Dancing and Peace Group on the Market Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025080201.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere was Morris dancing on Abingdon Market Place this morning. The Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers welcomed the St Albans Morris Men and Women.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025080202.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSt Albans are on a 95th anniversary tour. They are visiting well-known Morris teams in the Cotswolds tradition, including Bampton, Headington, and Abingdon. Their tour began here in Abingdon.<\/p>\n<p>The Abingdon dancers were on their way to the Ed Fest in Didcot, but met up with St Albans first.<\/p>\n<p>Each team did two dances. Then they danced one together. Many people stopped to watch.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025080204.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAlso in the Market Place were the Abingdon Peace Group. Next Wednesday, they will mark 80 years since the bombing of Hiroshima. There will be a lantern float from St Helen\u2019s Wharf, and a short time of reflection round the Peace Pole at St Ethelwold\u2019s House.<\/p>\n<p>St Albans Morris wear blue and yellow, the same colours as Ukraine. That is a coincidence \u2014 just as Abingdon\u2019s green and yellow are the same as Brazil\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was Morris dancing on Abingdon Market Place this morning. The Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers welcomed the St Albans Morris Men and Women. St Albans are on a 95th anniversary tour. They are visiting well-known Morris teams in the Cotswolds tradition, including Bampton, Headington, and Abingdon. Their tour began here in Abingdon. The Abingdon dancers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancing","category-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34057","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=34057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}