{"id":414,"date":"2010-05-31T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T23:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=414"},"modified":"2010-05-31T00:01:19","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T23:01:19","slug":"american-football-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"American Football in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10053104.jpg\" alt=\"Birmingham Bull Tackles Oxford Saint\" \/><br \/>\nPassing Abingdon Rugby Club today I was surprised to see American Football happening. On enquiring I discovered that The Oxford Saints were taking on the Birmingham Bulls.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10053102.jpg\" alt=\"Oxford Saints Bench\" \/><br \/>\nI watched for some time not fully understanding what was going on. Only later did I read a <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121219060849\/http:\/\/www.oxfordsaints.com:80\/beginnersguide\">Beginners Guide<\/a> on the Oxford Saint&#8217;s Website, and it began to make a bit more sense &#8211; how a whole team of players were replaced by a different team every now and then.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10053106.jpg\" alt=\"Oxford Saints player helped off\" \/><br \/>\nDespite all the protective gear, there were far more injuries than I would ever expect to see at an an equivalent Rugby Game.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10053105.jpg\" alt=\"Players facing each other before play starts\" \/><br \/>\nOxford Saints in red and blue eventually won by 28 to 2. For anybody interested the next game at Abingdon RUFC is 27th June @ 2:30 PM against Nottingham Ceasars <strong><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passing Abingdon Rugby Club today I was surprised to see American Football happening. On enquiring I discovered that The Oxford Saints were taking on the Birmingham Bulls. I watched for some time not fully understanding what was going on. Only later did I read a Beginners Guide on the Oxford Saint&#8217;s Website, and it began [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[193],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport","tag-american-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","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=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}