{"id":589,"date":"2008-10-05T23:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2008\/10\/05\/abingdon-michaelmas-street-fair-1-of-3\/"},"modified":"2008-10-05T23:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T23:23:00","slug":"abingdon-michaelmas-street-fair-1-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=589","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Michaelmas Street  Fair &#8211; 1 of 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08100512.jpg\" \/><br \/>The fair used to be set up on Sunday afternoon but nowadays it begins first thing Sunday Morning, and is almost complete by mid afternoon.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08100511.jpg\" \/><br \/>People walk the length of Ock Street to see what is on offer. Here are a couple of visitors from the Middle East with their Abingdon hosts. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8220;Abingdon isn&#8217;t like this normally!!!&#8221;<\/span><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08100503.jpg\" \/><br \/>Here are Private Blonde and friend in front of the Ask Restaurant. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08100504.jpg\" \/><br \/>The fair does mean there will be no traffic queues on Ock Street for a couple of days.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08100507.jpg\" \/><br \/>Crazy Croc helps enforce the car free street.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08100508.jpg\" \/><br \/>The fair is all smack bang in the middle of a residential street. Not all residents love it. Some  move away for a couple of days. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08100514.jpg\" \/><br \/>Only one ride gets going on the setup day &#8211; Sunday, and thats the galloping horses after the Fair Blessing Service. Its the only ride that is ever for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fair used to be set up on Sunday afternoon but nowadays it begins first thing Sunday Morning, and is almost complete by mid afternoon.People walk the length of Ock Street to see what is on offer. Here are a couple of visitors from the Middle East with their Abingdon hosts. &#8220;Abingdon isn&#8217;t like this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","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=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}