{"id":5851,"date":"2012-02-19T11:54:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T11:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5851"},"modified":"2012-02-19T11:54:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T11:54:09","slug":"abingdon-arts-festival-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5851","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Arts Festival Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12021811.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Arts Festival Ball\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon Arts Festival Ball was last night at the Guildhall. The Band were &#8220;Swingtime&#8221; and they had three singers, an American crooner who also played cornet.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12021815.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Arts Festival Ball\" \/><br \/>\nA young lady who also played a horn I think &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12021816.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Arts Festival Ball\" \/><br \/>\nAnd an excellent new singer who performed for the first time with the band.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12021805.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Arts Festival Ball\" \/><br \/>\nGeorge Haslam conducted and played clarinet.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12021810.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Arts Festival Ball\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Food was provided by Abbey Foods, and there was a raffle with prizes donated by local businesses. Donating prizes must be a bit of a strain on balances at straightened times like these but despite that lots of people were very generous.<\/p>\n<p>At first most of the dancing seemed to be of the Strictly Come Dancing variety. Balls are a chance for some people to practise their foxtrot and cha-cha-cha,\u00a0 but there is always room for disco dancing &#8211; it is all that some of us know \ud83d\ude42 .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abingdon Arts Festival Ball was last night at the Guildhall. The Band were &#8220;Swingtime&#8221; and they had three singers, an American crooner who also played cornet. A young lady who also played a horn I think &#8230; And an excellent new singer who performed for the first time with the band. George Haslam conducted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-groups","category-dancing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851","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=5851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}