{"id":3905,"date":"2011-06-26T00:47:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T23:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=3905"},"modified":"2011-06-26T00:47:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T23:47:40","slug":"abingdons-got-talent-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=3905","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon&#8217;s Got Talent 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abingdon's Got Talent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11062521.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon&#8217;s Got Talent was great fun as always. Here are two sisters performing Sisters.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abingdon's Got Talent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11062506.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere was a good crowd to see the 19 performances &#8211; I am not sure why the number of entries was down on last year but it meant that the heats and final were all rolled into one.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abingdon's Got Talent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11062515.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMy son was supposed to be performing and had set out to write a rap about a notorious female hanging in the Old Gaol but it proved too ambitious. He was replaced by a very good ballet dancer, and there was a band called &#8216;No Fear.&#8217;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abingdon's Got Talent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11062522.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe compere was excellent as were many of the acts and the judges &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abingdon's Got Talent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11062524.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nthis year were &#8230; The Mayor, Mike Badcock &#8230; The Leader of Abingdon Town Band, Steve Rich &#8230; Local BBC News Reader, Geraldine Peers &#8230; Retired School Drama Teacher and Amateur Dramatic Impresario, Eileen Bagshaw &#8230; and BBC Script writer \/ Editor, Paul Mayhew Archer.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abingdon's Got Talent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11062511.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe winner in the under 18s category was this young lady, singing and playing the guitar.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abingdon's Got Talent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11062528.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe winner in the over 18s category was a very good Irish Dancer. He started dancing at a very early age &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abingdon's Got Talent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11062518.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<i>&#8220;Michael Flatley, eat your heart out!&#8221;&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abingdon&#8217;s Got Talent was great fun as always. Here are two sisters performing Sisters. There was a good crowd to see the 19 performances &#8211; I am not sure why the number of entries was down on last year but it meant that the heats and final were all rolled into one. My son was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[245],"class_list":["post-3905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905","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=3905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}