{"id":7098,"date":"2012-08-11T23:28:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T22:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7098"},"modified":"2012-08-11T23:28:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T22:28:07","slug":"2012-mayor-of-abingdons-bowls-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7098","title":{"rendered":"2012 Mayor of Abingdon&#8217;s Bowls Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took a short break from watching the Olympics on TV to see some live sport on Friday in Abingdon &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12081101.jpg\" alt=\"Mayors Bowls Competition\" \/><br \/>\nThe 2012 Mayor&#8217;s challenge bowls competition was taking place at the bowls club in Albert Park.<\/p>\n<p>Normally the match is between the Mayor of Abingdon&#8217;s team, and the Lord Mayor of Oxford&#8217;s team. But this year the Lord Mayor of Oxford could not raise a team. So instead the Mayor of Abingdon&#8217;s team (which included the Mayor and some Abingdon town councillors and some standard players) played the Vale of White Horse (which included some Vale district councillors).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12081102.jpg\" alt=\"Mayors Bowls Competition\" \/><br \/>\nIt was a close match. When I left, about half way through, the Vale team were slightly ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Not all the councillors got the dress code exactly right, but they had come straight from work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a short break from watching the Olympics on TV to see some live sport on Friday in Abingdon &#8230; The 2012 Mayor&#8217;s challenge bowls competition was taking place at the bowls club in Albert Park. Normally the match is between the Mayor of Abingdon&#8217;s team, and the Lord Mayor of Oxford&#8217;s team. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098","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=7098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}