{"id":34814,"date":"2026-01-03T18:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34814"},"modified":"2026-01-03T18:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:16:08","slug":"queen-marys-favour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34814","title":{"rendered":"Queen Mary\u2019s Favour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026010301a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOn New Year\u2019s Day, the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers were out. They met at the Punchbowl at 2 p.m. before processing to the Market Place, where they danced for the crowd who had gathered.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026010304.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nRoger Cox, in his role as Fool, introduced each dance. For one dance he drew attention to a stone, inscribed 1556 &#8211; 2006, in the centre of the Market Place, commemorating the Abingdon Charter granted by Queen Mary in 1556.<\/p>\n<p>He announced &#8216;Queen Mary\u2019s Favour&#8217;, a dance created in 2006, for that same 450th anniversary. Here is a video in which the Morris dance round and salute their squire &#8211; The Mayor of Ock Street, Harry Knight.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Queen Mary&amp;apos;s Favour to Abingdon\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/glhI-7KIqVA?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 \/>\nDancing may have kept some of them warm. Being danced round may be an honour, but not a way to keep warm on a cold day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On New Year\u2019s Day, the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers were out. They met at the Punchbowl at 2 p.m. before processing to the Market Place, where they danced for the crowd who had gathered. Roger Cox, in his role as Fool, introduced each dance. For one dance he drew attention to a stone, inscribed 1556 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34814","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=34814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}