{"id":34940,"date":"2026-01-31T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34940"},"modified":"2026-01-31T14:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T14:58:00","slug":"a-fifth-saturday-local-excellence-market-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34940","title":{"rendered":"A Fifth-Saturday Local Excellence Market in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026013101.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Town Crier was there to announce the Local Excellence Market in town today.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026013103.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe event usually comes around on the fifth Saturday, when there is one, with local, independent stalls, and sociable people. Around 25 stalls filled the square.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026013108.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nVisitors could buy everything from hot food and bread to cakes, pies, crafts and gifts from local producers. There were spells of sunshine, no rain, and little wind.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026013104.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAlongside the market was the launch of the new <em>What\u2019s Happening Abingdon<\/em>, Spring &#8211; Summer 2026, produced by the Abingdon Events Partnership, who also organise the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Town Crier was there to announce the Local Excellence Market in town today. The event usually comes around on the fifth Saturday, when there is one, with local, independent stalls, and sociable people. Around 25 stalls filled the square. Visitors could buy everything from hot food and bread to cakes, pies, crafts and gifts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-place"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34940","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=34940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}