{"id":3508,"date":"2011-05-18T22:57:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T21:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2011-05-18T22:57:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T21:57:22","slug":"an-aunt-sally-blob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=3508","title":{"rendered":"Aunt Sally at the Anchor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11051903.jpg\" alt=\"Aunt Sally\" \/><br \/>\nWe went out for a drink and got to see an Aunt Sally match at the Old Anchor Inn between the Anchor Inn and the Cross Keys &#8216;C&#8217; team. According to one member of the &#8216;C&#8217; team they are better than the &#8216;B&#8217; but not so good as the &#8216;A&#8217;.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11051902.jpg\" alt=\"Aunt Sally\" \/><br \/>\nThis game is played in Oxfordshire and Berkshire pubs and involves two teams of eight players throwing six sticks each per leg. The largest number of &#8216;doll&#8217;s scored per team wins each leg.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11051901.jpg\" alt=\"Aunt Sally\" \/><br \/>\nIf a player fails to score in a leg, it is called a blob.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went out for a drink and got to see an Aunt Sally match at the Old Anchor Inn between the Anchor Inn and the Cross Keys &#8216;C&#8217; team. According to one member of the &#8216;C&#8217; team they are better than the &#8216;B&#8217; but not so good as the &#8216;A&#8217;. This game is played in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508","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=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}