{"id":5494,"date":"2012-01-01T15:26:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T15:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5494"},"modified":"2012-01-01T15:26:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T15:26:38","slug":"abingdon-boundary-walk-jan-1st-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5494","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Boundary Walk &#8211; Jan 1st 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12010101.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Boundary Walk\" \/><br \/>\nThe traditional new years day walk, round the 1556 Abingdon Boundary, began at the Market Place in front of the County Hall &#8211; now looking splendid without the scaffold.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12010102.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Boundary Walk\" \/><br \/>\nThe walk was led by Alan Bryden &#8211; who also does guided tours round the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Alan began by saying &#8220;We shall start with a run round the boundary&#8221; to which somebody responded &#8220;I&#8217;m not running round.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time Alan has led the walk. Previously it was led by Martin Smith.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12010104.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Boundary Walk\" \/><br \/>\nThe town crier rang his bell and wished everybody we met a Happy New Year.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12010110.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Boundary Walk\" \/><br \/>\nHe had some good one liners, which I have forgotten &#8211; a visual gag will have to do instead.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12010111.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Boundary Walk\" \/><br \/>\nHere are two ex councillors who stood down last year &#8211; Laurel Symons,\u00a0and Janet Morgan &#8211; Abingdon&#8217;s latest freeman. We are hoping she will arrange to drive some sheep over Abingdon Bridge in 2012 &#8211; the one privilege afforded Abingdon Freemen and the sort of thing that should happen during a Diamond Jubilee year as well as the bun throw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The traditional new years day walk, round the 1556 Abingdon Boundary, began at the Market Place in front of the County Hall &#8211; now looking splendid without the scaffold. The walk was led by Alan Bryden &#8211; who also does guided tours round the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Alan began by saying &#8220;We shall start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494","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=5494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}