{"id":35264,"date":"2026-04-05T09:25:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T08:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35264"},"modified":"2026-04-05T09:25:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T08:25:28","slug":"not-a-hoax-the-monk-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35264","title":{"rendered":"Not a Hoax &#8211; The Monk is back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026040503b.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nDespite what this blog reported on April 1st, the monk has really appeared on the Marcham Road Roundabout this Easter Day morning &#8211; as a big surprise.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026040502.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe work to lift him in and bolt him down must have happened early this morning.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026040501.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIt has been arranged by the Abingdon Freemasons, who really do have ties with the original monk, although not the hoax ones put on this blog on April 1st. The previous monk also had a Masonic connection as the original monk was sponsored by the Abbey Press which was run by one of their members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite what this blog reported on April 1st, the monk has really appeared on the Marcham Road Roundabout this Easter Day morning &#8211; as a big surprise. The work to lift him in and bolt him down must have happened early this morning. It has been arranged by the Abingdon Freemasons, who really do have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-and-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35264","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=35264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}