{"id":7623,"date":"2012-11-03T13:30:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T12:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7623"},"modified":"2012-11-03T13:30:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T12:30:45","slug":"remembrance-service-and-firework-display-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7623","title":{"rendered":"Remembrance Day and Firework Display Reminder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12110305.jpg\" alt=\"Remembrance Service and Firework Displays\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon Sea Cadets were selling poppies in town today, as they were last Saturday. This year Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday overlap on 11th November so I expect there will be just the one big ceremony round the War Memorial.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12110302.jpg\" alt=\"Remembrance Service and Firework Displays\" \/><br \/>\nAlso in town were lots of scouts from the 2nd Abingdon Scout Group. <\/p>\n<p>Some were collecting money in buckets. One young scout told me that their building had a big crack and might fall down. <\/p>\n<p>They also had a cake stall, and were selling tickets for their annual firework display next Saturday. For once the Saturday Abingdon firework displays do not overlap. Tonight  at <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121029044403\/http:\/\/www.culhampark.com:80\/Fireworks.html\">Culham Park<\/a> gates open at 4:30 and fireworks begin at 7. Next Saturday 10th November (for the scouts) gates open at 6:30 at Long Furlong Community Centre (free parking is at Tilsley Park) and fireworks begin about an hour later but I&#8217;m never sure so usually get there early. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abingdon Sea Cadets were selling poppies in town today, as they were last Saturday. This year Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday overlap on 11th November so I expect there will be just the one big ceremony round the War Memorial. Also in town were lots of scouts from the 2nd Abingdon Scout Group. Some [&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-7623","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\/7623","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=7623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}