{"id":34713,"date":"2025-12-10T22:24:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T22:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34713"},"modified":"2025-12-10T22:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T22:24:15","slug":"abingdon-town-centre-lights-and-a-hidden-christmas-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34713","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Town Centre Lights and a Hidden Christmas Angel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in Abingdon after a couple of days away, I took an evening walk around the town centre to see this year\u2019s festive lights.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025121006.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMa Cherie was lit inside and out, and people were enjoying the warm atmosphere.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025121005.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nFrom the Waitrose car park, Bridge House is surrounded with lights, including a walk-in bauble at the Riverly Club entrance and other installations round the side.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025121001.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAs to the town council lights, I was reminded that you can create the illusion of an angel from the artificial illuminated tree on Roysse Court with the garland of lights across Bridge Street.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025121003.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nJust line them up and fine-tune your position to create the illusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in Abingdon after a couple of days away, I took an evening walk around the town centre to see this year\u2019s festive lights. Ma Cherie was lit inside and out, and people were enjoying the warm atmosphere. From the Waitrose car park, Bridge House is surrounded with lights, including a walk-in bauble at the [&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-34713","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\/34713","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=34713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}