{"id":7462,"date":"2012-10-07T23:23:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T22:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7462"},"modified":"2012-10-07T23:23:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T22:23:10","slug":"abingdon-fair-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7462","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Fair &#8211; Sunday &#8211; with church services at start and end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12100701.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Fair - Sunday\" \/><br \/>\nBishop Elias of South Sudan &#8211; the newest country on the planet &#8211; was preaching  at Abingdon Baptist Church this morning. He was hidden for three days in the jungle at birth because of the civil war; recruited at 12 as  a child soldier; educated at a refugee camp in Uganda; arrested by the people&#8217;s liberation army and sentenced to a firing squad; now a bishop, he is dedicated to building schools and hospitals in his homeland. He said &#8220;All we need is a small push at first and then WE&#8217;LL start rolling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(And, on a minor note, he had to find his way through Abingdon Fair to get to the Baptist Church for the service at 10am this morning.)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12100702.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Fair - Sunday\" \/><br \/>\nOutside preparations for Abingdon Fair were well under way.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12100703.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Fair - Sunday\" \/><br \/>\nThe Helter Skelter was being slotted together section by section.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12100704.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Fair - Sunday\" \/><br \/>\nHorses were taken out from where they are packed like sardines in a van to be hung on the Carousel of Galloping Horses.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12100706.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Fair - Sunday\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon Fair is one of the longest Street Fairs in the UK and probably the longest along such a narrow town centre \/ residential street. In places the margins for error are small with buildings so close.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/121007207.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Fair - Sunday\" \/><br \/>\nLater on, with most of the hard work done, there was another church service\u00a0 to welcome and bless the Fair. It ended with a ride on the Carousel. <\/p>\n<p>Abingdon Fun Fair grew out of the hiring fairs set up in Medieaval times to help regulate the labour market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Elias of South Sudan &#8211; the newest country on the planet &#8211; was preaching at Abingdon Baptist Church this morning. He was hidden for three days in the jungle at birth because of the civil war; recruited at 12 as a child soldier; educated at a refugee camp in Uganda; arrested by the people&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7462","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=7462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}