{"id":35102,"date":"2026-03-01T18:36:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T18:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35102"},"modified":"2026-03-01T18:36:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T18:36:34","slug":"saint-davids-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35102","title":{"rendered":"Saint David\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026030101.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSaint David\u2019s Day was celebrated today, 1 March. In Abingdon, Helen and Douglas House marked the day with a red-and-white display and daffodils.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026030104.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAt Trinity Church there were displays of daffodils outside the building, inside the building, and some people wore daffodils.<\/p>\n<p>Three Welsh hymn tunes were sung (with English words). The story was told of Saint David\u2019s last sermon. People had heard that he was dying and came from far and wide, expecting something momentous. Tradition says that Saint David had a surprisingly simple message:<\/p>\n<p>Brothers and sisters,<br \/>\nbe joyful.<br \/>\nKeep your faith and your creed.<br \/>\nAnd do the little things<br \/>\nthat you have seen and heard me do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint David\u2019s Day was celebrated today, 1 March. In Abingdon, Helen and Douglas House marked the day with a red-and-white display and daffodils. At Trinity Church there were displays of daffodils outside the building, inside the building, and some people wore daffodils. Three Welsh hymn tunes were sung (with English words). The story was told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35102","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=35102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}