{"id":4832,"date":"2011-10-11T00:34:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T23:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4832"},"modified":"2011-10-11T00:34:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T23:34:52","slug":"abingdon-fair-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4832","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Fair &#8211; Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11101001.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Fair\" \/><br \/>\nNormally Meteorite is next to Body Count in front of St Nic&#8217;s church.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11101013.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Fair\" \/><br \/>\nBut this year Body Count was at the far end of Ock Street almost a mile away. The Abingdon Street Fair is <em>that long<\/em>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11101021.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Fair\" \/><br \/>\nThe Fair did look a little thin in places yesterday, during the setup, but rides have arrived since then. The Nottingham Goose Fair was still on up until yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Late in the day Super Bob appeared in the Car park of the White Horse Pub, and Froggit has appeared in front of the Tower Close Flats.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11101029.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Fair\" \/><br \/>\nAnother difference this year is that the County Hall is still mostly under wraps  &#8211; undergoing the museum improvements and half-century building maintenance job.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11101003.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Fair\" \/><br \/>\nThe twirling light shone up into the sky by Hebborn&#8217;s Waltzer, from Oxford, gave quite a different effect when it lit up the corner of the County Hall &#8211; this year.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11101004.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Fair\" \/><br \/>\nThe Prince of India joined in the spirit of the Fair by serving takeaways from the pavement. The Dil Raj handed out menus.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11101006.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Fair\" \/><br \/>\nDads carried tired toddlers on shoulders&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11101008.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Fair\" \/><br \/>\nwhile Teenagers tried out more and more daring rides.<\/p>\n<p>There was a little wind about, and a very fine shower late in the evening, but conditions were good. There were lots of people but not the normal crush.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic from South Abingdon was very heavy during the early morning rush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally Meteorite is next to Body Count in front of St Nic&#8217;s church. But this year Body Count was at the far end of Ock Street almost a mile away. The Abingdon Street Fair is that long. The Fair did look a little thin in places yesterday, during the setup, but rides have arrived since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832","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=4832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}