{"id":34471,"date":"2025-10-25T21:23:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T20:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34471"},"modified":"2025-10-25T21:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T20:23:15","slug":"abingdon-remembers-poppy-appeal-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34471","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Remembers: Poppy Appeal 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025102509.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThis year\u2019s Poppy Appeal was highlighted on the Market Place this morning with a table selling poppies, and two vintage military vehicles.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025102506.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOne was an ex-US military ambulance, the other a jeep with a folding motorcycle on the front and a spray of poppies in the gun turret.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025102503.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere will be a Poppy Ball at the Hilton Garden Inn on Friday 7th November, organised by Clare Oldfield from Abingdon Royal British Legion Club. Re-enactors from the Redline Home Guard will greet guests, with music from Abingdon\u2019s own 20-piece SwingTime orchestra and floral displays by The Abingdon Flower Club.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets (\u00a310) are available from the Royal British Legion Club on Spring Road, the Hilton Garden Inn, Frend the Jeweller, and The Bookstore.<\/p>\n<p>Clare said,\u00a0 \u201cThis is my 10th year as Abingdon\u2019s Poppy Appeal organiser, and I\u2019m determined to make it count. Abingdon has always taken the poppy to its heart, and this ball will not only raise funds for this amazing charity but also celebrate all that\u2019s good in the town.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s Poppy Appeal was highlighted on the Market Place this morning with a table selling poppies, and two vintage military vehicles. One was an ex-US military ambulance, the other a jeep with a folding motorcycle on the front and a spray of poppies in the gun turret. There will be a Poppy Ball at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34471","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=34471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}