{"id":738,"date":"2008-05-17T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2008\/05\/17\/spring-festival\/"},"modified":"2008-05-17T15:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-17T15:38:00","slug":"spring-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"Spring Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08051607.jpg\" \/><br \/>One thing was missing this year from the Spring Festival: A Maypole.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08051609.jpg\" \/><br \/>However there was dancing from The Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08051604.jpg\" \/><br \/>and the Abingdon Scottish Dancers.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08051615.jpg\" \/><br \/>Punch and Judy (a little bit too scarey for some),<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08051614.jpg\" \/><br \/>a little Big Band ( 4 members from the Oxford University Big Band.)<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08051611.jpg\" \/><br \/>and a climbing wall. The Spring Festival marks the launch of Abingdon in Bloom, and so there are also plant stalls.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08051613.jpg\" \/><br \/>Pat Hobby, a well known retired primary school teacher and the new deputy Mayor, is taking part in a dance called Maid of Mill.<\/p>\n<p>But no Maypole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing was missing this year from the Spring Festival: A Maypole.However there was dancing from The Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancersand the Abingdon Scottish Dancers.Punch and Judy (a little bit too scarey for some),a little Big Band ( 4 members from the Oxford University Big Band.)and a climbing wall. The Spring Festival marks the launch [&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-738","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\/738","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=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}