{"id":5104,"date":"2011-11-13T20:35:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T19:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5104"},"modified":"2011-11-13T20:35:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T19:35:06","slug":"abingdon-remembers-13th-nov-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5104","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Remembers &#8211; 13th Nov 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11111307.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Remembers 2011\" \/><br \/>\nA second and much larger remembrance ceremony (compared with the Armistice Day ceremony) took part at the\u00a0war memorial today. A lot of the people who take part, both\u00a0service people past and present, and dignitaries, attend a church\u00a0service at St Helen&#8217;s Church beforehand.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11111303.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Remembers 2011\" \/><br \/>\nThe ceremony was again very well attended and very moving. \u00a0But as\u00a0a member of the public, to get a place, you now have to get there\u00a0quite early. People were standing back along the High Street able\u00a0to hear the music and see the parade but missing out on the\u00a0quieter prayers and poems.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11111319.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Remembers 2011\" \/><br \/>\nDuring the ceremony wreathes are laid by dignitaries and clubs\u00a0and societies, and after the ceremony many people choose to place\u00a0their poppy or a small cross next to the memorial. If you did\u00a0miss the cermony I have more images and some of the words and music on a\u00a0short video. Music was played by Abingdon Town Band, and the Last\u00a0Post and Reveille was sounded by Alison Rich, their principal\u00a0cornet player \u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bfsfJ4cx1q8?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bfsfJ4cx1q8?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second and much larger remembrance ceremony (compared with the Armistice Day ceremony) took part at the\u00a0war memorial today. A lot of the people who take part, both\u00a0service people past and present, and dignitaries, attend a church\u00a0service at St Helen&#8217;s Church beforehand. The ceremony was again very well attended and very moving. \u00a0But as\u00a0a member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cemetery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104","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=5104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}