{"id":4357,"date":"2011-08-20T20:09:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T19:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4357"},"modified":"2011-08-20T20:09:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T19:09:31","slug":"were-the-right-people-in-the-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4357","title":{"rendered":"Were the right people in the stocks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody suggested that stocks should be brought back in earnest for people who had had too much to drink the night before, but at the Fairtrade event on the Market Place it was more a chance to throw wet sponges at some well known Abingdon people.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"In the Stocks\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11082001.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nPaul Townsend &#8211; Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"In the Stocks\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11082012.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nHeather Brown, of Choose Abingdon, answering a call from one of the town centre shops &#8211; after getting a dowsing.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"In the Stocks\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11082015.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nDuncan Brown, last year&#8217;s Mayor, getting one right in the googles.<\/p>\n<p>(More pictures of&nbsp; the Fairtrade event on the Market Place in a bit.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody suggested that stocks should be brought back in earnest for people who had had too much to drink the night before, but at the Fairtrade event on the Market Place it was more a chance to throw wet sponges at some well known Abingdon people. Paul Townsend &#8211; Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357","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=4357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}