{"id":34719,"date":"2025-12-13T19:27:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T19:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34719"},"modified":"2025-12-13T19:27:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T19:27:55","slug":"carols-in-the-market-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34719","title":{"rendered":"Carols in the Market Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025121304.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMembers of the Church in Abingdon were singing carols in the Market Place today. They set up banners, including one of the stable scene in the Nativity Story. There was a craft table and face painting.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025121305.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Town Crier announced each of the carols. A keyboard player and violinist accompanied the singing.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025121307.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSinging was led by Sally Mears.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025121306.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere were even several dogs who joined in with the occasional bark.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025121301.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAfterwards the Street Pastors offered hot pasties and mulled juice.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"O Little Town of Bethlehem | Carols in the Market Place, Abingdon (13 December 2025)\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GsniSdDWypU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nAbove is a recording of just one of the many carols: <em>Oh Little Town of Bethlehem<\/em> with Sally Mears adding a Descant on the last verse. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Church in Abingdon were singing carols in the Market Place today. They set up banners, including one of the stable scene in the Nativity Story. There was a craft table and face painting. The Town Crier announced each of the carols. A keyboard player and violinist accompanied the singing. Singing was led [&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-34719","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\/34719","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=34719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}