{"id":6916,"date":"2012-07-10T23:38:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T22:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6916"},"modified":"2012-07-10T23:38:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T22:38:59","slug":"olympic-torch-relay-through-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6916","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Torch Relay Through Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to everybody who sent pictures of the Olympic Torch being carried through Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12071004dave.jpg\" alt=\"Olympic Torch through Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nThe first picture is of the torch relay at 7:41am, precisely, as it started at the roundabout at the top end of Oxford Road. The first runner is 007.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12071005stuart.jpg\" alt=\"Olympic Torch through Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nStuart captured the torch relay handover at the Boundary House.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12071014beryl.jpg\" alt=\"Olympic Torch through Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nBeryl sent pictures from the Oxford Road at the junction with St Johns Road.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12071006andy.jpg\" alt=\"Olympic Torch through Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nAndy picked up the coverage as the torch was carried from the Oxford Road and down the Vineyard.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12071008syd.jpg\" alt=\"Olympic Torch through Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nHalf way down Stert Street Syd caught the next torch carrier.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12071011kev.jpg\" alt=\"Olympic Torch through Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nKev was there early and had a good position at the lower end of Stert Street, where the crowd was spilling onto the roads. Abingdon had many marshalls, including soldiers from Dalton Barracks. My wife said the atmosphere was amazing.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12071012paul.jpg\" alt=\"Olympic Torch through Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nBy the time the torch had reached Paul outside his shop in Bridge Street the crowds were enormous and there was no controlling them. This runner is Margaret Brown.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12071013stephen.jpg\" alt=\"Olympic Torch through Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nHere Margaret is again thanks to Stephen. I got more pictures of Margaret than any other torch holder. The crowd thinned a little over Abingdon Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks for all the pictures. Sorry I have not used more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to everybody who sent pictures of the Olympic Torch being carried through Abingdon. The first picture is of the torch relay at 7:41am, precisely, as it started at the roundabout at the top end of Oxford Road. The first runner is 007. Stuart captured the torch relay handover at the Boundary House. Beryl [&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-6916","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\/6916","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=6916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}