{"id":8444,"date":"2013-03-12T23:29:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T22:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8444"},"modified":"2013-03-12T23:29:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T22:29:36","slug":"abingdon-passion-play-12-days-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8444","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Passion Play &#8211; 12 days to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abingdon Passion Play\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13031207.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOn Palm Sunday at 2pm in the Abbey Gardens the Abingdon Passions Play will begin and run for about 2 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The play needed a Donkey and one was found one thanks to an appeal and article in the Abingdon Herald.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abingdon Passion Play\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13031206.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThey needed Roman Soldiers and now some have been found thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.candomartialarts.co.uk\/\">Can Do Martial Arts<\/a>&nbsp;who will swap kimonos for tunics and armour. <\/p>\n<p>There will be choirs and bands &#8211; lots of community groups will take part. There will be performers, and a crowd. <\/p>\n<p>The crowd can start to mingle from 1pm on Palm Sunday when the Abbey Gardens will become Jerusalem and Abingdon -> Abingammergau. Each scene will take place in a different location within the Abbey Gardens: from Jesus\u2019 triumphal entry on the donkey, his arrest and false trial, and finally his crucifixion and the resurrection. The crowd can follow the action as it unfolds.<\/p>\n<p><small>In the case of heavy rainfall the performance will take place in St Helen\u2019s Church.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Palm Sunday at 2pm in the Abbey Gardens the Abingdon Passions Play will begin and run for about 2 hours. The play needed a Donkey and one was found one thanks to an appeal and article in the Abingdon Herald. They needed Roman Soldiers and now some have been found thanks to the Can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abbey-grounds","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8444","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=8444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}