{"id":5261,"date":"2011-12-04T02:09:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T01:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5261"},"modified":"2011-12-04T02:09:08","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T01:09:08","slug":"craft-fair-and-dragon-this-week-father-christmas-and-reindeer-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5261","title":{"rendered":"Craft Fair and Dragon this week. Father Christmas and Reindeer next &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11120310.jpg\" alt=\"Craft Fair and Dragon\" \/><br \/>\nThe Town Crier was announcing all that was happening in town today, and went on to say that next Saturday Father Christmas will be on the Market Place with two real reindeer, Holly and Ivy.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11120301.jpg\" alt=\"Craft Fair and Dragon\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon Concert Band played carols on the Market Place today.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11120302.jpg\" alt=\"Craft Fair and Dragon\" \/><br \/>\nThere was a Craft Fair which included The Honey Pot who swapped their shop for a gazebo for the day.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11120304.jpg\" alt=\"Craft Fair and Dragon\" \/><br \/>\nThe Honey Pot have been trading in the town Abingdon On Thames for a couple of years so are ahead of the curve.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11120303.jpg\" alt=\"Craft Fair and Dragon\" \/><br \/>\nLoose Cannon were also there selling Abingdon brewed beer, some in gift packs with a Loose Cannon glass.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11120308.jpg\" alt=\"Craft Fair and Dragon\" \/><br \/>\nThe Town Crier also announced that the Help The Heroes Rocking Dragon was on display. It can be seen here next to Brian Estoe who, with fellow wood carvers, carved the beast, and coated it with scales which people have sponsored for \u00a32 a scale.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11120309.jpg\" alt=\"Craft Fair and Dragon\" \/><br \/>\nThe dragon has raised nearly \u00a310,000 for Help The Heroes. \u00a0I remember buying a scale for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrydogblog.com\/2011\/04\/harrys-one-scale-certificate.html\">Harry the Dog<\/a> but have not found it yet \u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Town Crier was announcing all that was happening in town today, and went on to say that next Saturday Father Christmas will be on the Market Place with two real reindeer, Holly and Ivy. The Abingdon Concert Band played carols on the Market Place today. There was a Craft Fair which included The Honey [&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-5261","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\/5261","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=5261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}