{"id":5240,"date":"2011-12-02T02:20:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T01:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5240"},"modified":"2011-12-02T02:20:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T01:20:14","slug":"abingdon-extravaganza-december-1st-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5240","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Extravaganza 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11120220.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Extravaganza\" \/><br \/>\nThe Christmas lights were turned on by Nicola Blackwood MP, seen here being driven down Stert Street in an old MG &#8211; following the Abingdon Sea Cadets (separate pictures of them in a day or two with a separate story).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11120201.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Extravaganza\" \/><br \/>\nThe theme of the evening was Kings and Queens.\u00a0 Abingdon&#8217;s 2nd newest shop, Utopia, looked the part.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11120210.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Extravaganza\" \/><br \/>\nMark from <a href=\"http:\/\/mostly-books.blogspot.com\/\">Mostly Books<\/a> was King of Books, a couple of doors up.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11120202.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Extravaganza\" \/><br \/>\nThe town crier was out and about letting everybody know what was happening. Here he is at Skinny Hippo.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11120206.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Extravaganza\" \/><br \/>\nThere were lots of entertainers this year.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11120209.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Extravaganza\" \/><br \/>\nClubs and societies were also taking part. There was even a chance to take penalties behind Poundland.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11120211.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Extravaganza\" \/><br \/>\nIn St Nic&#8217;s Church there were displays from different community groups connected with the Church in Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11120216.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Extravaganza\" \/><br \/>\nA great charity fund raiser from the Co-op is seen here giving out Fairtrade chocolate at the Fairtrade stall. Next to him is Mike Moon, who helped Paul Townsend at the Chamber of Commerce organise a lot of this extravaganza evening.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11120215.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Extravaganza\" \/><br \/>\nIt ended with awards for best costumes, best shop front, and best of about 100 entries for Find the Fairy, and then fireworks. Huge crowds were in town.<\/p>\n<p>P.S<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11120228.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Extravaganza\" \/><br \/>\nFather Christmas was also there and will soon be visiting most areas in Abingdon, thanks to the Abingdon Lions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christmas lights were turned on by Nicola Blackwood MP, seen here being driven down Stert Street in an old MG &#8211; following the Abingdon Sea Cadets (separate pictures of them in a day or two with a separate story). The theme of the evening was Kings and Queens.\u00a0 Abingdon&#8217;s 2nd newest shop, Utopia, looked [&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-5240","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\/5240","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=5240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}