{"id":6727,"date":"2012-06-04T01:41:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T00:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6727"},"modified":"2012-06-04T01:41:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T00:41:45","slug":"braving-the-rain-abingdon-centre-jubilee-street-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6727","title":{"rendered":"Braving the rain at Abingdon&#8217;s largest Jubilee Street Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody did tell me that Sunday was expected to be a deluge and they were right. But everything went ahead on Jubilee Sunday and we saw some of the character that makes our country great.<\/p>\n<p>Abingdon&#8217;s largest Jubilee Street Party went ahead. I hope they others managed as well.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12060305.jpg\" alt=\"Ock Street Street Party\" \/><br \/>\nWith no traffic coming along High Street the bus shelter made a good shelter for this group from Lombard Street.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12060310.jpg\" alt=\"Ock Street Street Party\" \/><br \/>\nIn fact all the bus shelters got well used.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12060308.jpg\" alt=\"Ock Street Street Party\" \/><br \/>\nThe dignatories had no such cover I&#8217;m afraid. The Mayor underwent three drenching during the day: at the Street Party, at the Bun Throw, and at the Prom in the Park.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12060307.jpg\" alt=\"Ock Street Street Party\" \/><br \/>\nIt was not just English people. This marque had people from several different countries, and they were letting people try their foods.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12060312.jpg\" alt=\"Ock Street Street Party\" \/><br \/>\nAll of these people came over from Abingdon Virginia showing that all Abingdonians have what it takes.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12060306.jpg\" alt=\"Ock Street Street Party\" \/><br \/>\nSome people had charity stalls, such as the Friends of Abingdon Community Hospital.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12060313.jpg\" alt=\"Ock Street Street Party\" \/><br \/>\nAnd although a number of trade stalls were booked I think only the one turned up. So they deserve a special mention.  Wood Turning specialist <a href=\"http:\/\/vallis-green-woodworking.weebly.com\/\">Vallis Green<\/a>.  He will be back near Christmas.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12060311.jpg\" alt=\"Ock Street Street Party\" \/><br \/>\nThere were too many to mention who braved the rain and made a Jubilee party in the rain to celebrate the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody did tell me that Sunday was expected to be a deluge and they were right. But everything went ahead on Jubilee Sunday and we saw some of the character that makes our country great. Abingdon&#8217;s largest Jubilee Street Party went ahead. I hope they others managed as well. With no traffic coming along High [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jubilee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727","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=6727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}