{"id":34610,"date":"2025-11-17T22:10:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T22:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34610"},"modified":"2025-11-17T22:10:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T22:10:42","slug":"a-new-christmas-tree-arrives-on-abingdon-market-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34610","title":{"rendered":"A New Christmas Tree Arrives on Abingdon Market Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025111701.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOne moment this fine fir tree was growing in a forest, and the next it\u2019s been cut, hauled across the country on a lorry, and stood up in Abingdon-on-Thames Market Place.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025111702.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBy Saturday 15th November a fence had been placed around it, and a Palestinian flag was on display as part of a pro Palestinian protest. (Bethlehem, where the Christmas story begins, is a Palestinian city in the West Bank, and so the connection is not that far fetched.)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025111703a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nToday, the tree was surrounded by Monday Market stalls and their vans. On the stationary stall are notebooks and 2026 diaries. 2025 seems like the fastest year ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One moment this fine fir tree was growing in a forest, and the next it\u2019s been cut, hauled across the country on a lorry, and stood up in Abingdon-on-Thames Market Place. By Saturday 15th November a fence had been placed around it, and a Palestinian flag was on display as part of a pro Palestinian [&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-34610","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\/34610","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=34610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}