{"id":34536,"date":"2025-11-08T20:05:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34536"},"modified":"2025-11-08T20:05:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:05:25","slug":"st-michaels-christmas-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34536","title":{"rendered":"St Michael\u2019s Christmas Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025110805.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSt Michael\u2019s Church was open today, with Union Jack bunting outside, for the annual Christmas Fair. The nave, aisles and church hall were filled with a mix of stalls: bric-a-brac and books,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025110803.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nalongside arts and crafts, raffles and have a go stalls, homemade cakes, and refreshments.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025110807.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSunlight through the south transept window lit the area where visitors gathered to chat over coffee.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025110802.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe handbell ringers performed Christmas Carols near the altar.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025110804.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe craft table was busy with children and adults making Christmas decorations. They included a lady with a \u201cFleece Navidad\u201d jumper \u2013 a woolly pun on Feliz Navidad.<\/p>\n<p>No Father Paul this year, but the fair still had a warm community feel with mulled wine and bacon butties. It was the first Christmas Fair of the season in Abingdon, beating the rush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Michael\u2019s Church was open today, with Union Jack bunting outside, for the annual Christmas Fair. The nave, aisles and church hall were filled with a mix of stalls: bric-a-brac and books, alongside arts and crafts, raffles and have a go stalls, homemade cakes, and refreshments. Sunlight through the south transept window lit the area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34536","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=34536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}