{"id":7628,"date":"2012-11-04T01:07:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T00:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7628"},"modified":"2012-11-04T01:07:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T00:07:42","slug":"bonfire-and-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7628","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks for Help for Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We drove out of Abingdon towards Culham on the A415, then drove on old military tracks and rutted farmtracks to Culham Park &#8211; just over the River Thames from Abingdon and well known for Moto X.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12110402.jpg\" alt=\"Bonfire Night\" \/><br \/>\nThere were  fair ground amusements, food stalls with long queues, slack-line balancing,  and in one marquee a drum circle. I gather the Hot Air Balloon &#8216;night glow&#8217; had not been possible because of conditions but there was a laser show.<\/p>\n<p>Just before the firworks, archers shot flaming arrows to try to get the bonfire started, but it took somebody with a flaming torch &#8211; Olympic style &#8211; to ignite the pile with Guy Fawkes on top.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12110414.jpg\" alt=\"Bonfire Night\" \/><br \/>\nMoney raised goes to Help The Heroes. If I remember right this is the same event that happened for one year in the Abbey Meadows, since  when it has been at Culham Park. <\/p>\n<p>Before that there was a large firework event at Dalton Barracks &#8211; although that could have been a different organisation. <\/p>\n<p>(The 2nd Abingdon Scouts fireworks &#8211; next Saturday &#8211; has been the same as long as I remember.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We drove out of Abingdon towards Culham on the A415, then drove on old military tracks and rutted farmtracks to Culham Park &#8211; just over the River Thames from Abingdon and well known for Moto X. There were fair ground amusements, food stalls with long queues, slack-line balancing, and in one marquee a drum circle. [&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-7628","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\/7628","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=7628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}