{"id":864,"date":"2010-07-03T20:12:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T19:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=864"},"modified":"2010-07-03T20:12:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T19:12:29","slug":"open-day-at-dalton-barracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=864","title":{"rendered":"Open Day At Dalton Barracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10070301.jpg\" alt=\"Dancing at Army Day\" \/><br \/>\nToday was Dalton Barracks Open Day. It is a chance for families associated with the barracks and the local community to get together.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10070308.jpg\" alt=\"Bangra Dancing Group\" \/><br \/>\nThere were quite a few different types of ethnic dancing. This group of Bangra dancers invited members of the audience to join in. In this picture I recognise Lorrain Oates (ex Mayor), two army officers, John Flood &#8211; Mayor of Didcot, and Elizabeth Drury &#8211; local historian. All had a go.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10070303.jpg\" alt=\"Bomb Disposal Robot\" \/><br \/>\nFom Didcot were members of the bomb disposal team based there at Vauxhall barracks. This gentleman is having ago at controlling one of the bomb disposal robots.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10070307.jpg\" alt=\"Chair and Mayor\" \/><br \/>\nThe Chair of the Vale, and Mayor of Abingdon took part in a grog tasting ceremony which included them being given some garlands, and drinking a potion that numbs the lips.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10070304.jpg\" alt=\"Parachuting in the Flag\" \/><br \/>\nThere were lots of displays and stalls, all quite different from what you get at a usual fete or fun-day. Sky divers dropped in flying the flag.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10070305.jpg\" alt=\"Raising The Flag\" \/><br \/>\nThere were also the ceremonial parts, such as the flag raising.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10070302.jpg\" alt=\"Dancing at Army Day\" \/><br \/>\nThere was a good turnout since England had been knocked out of the World Cup. They would have been playing today. And the weather was fantastic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was Dalton Barracks Open Day. It is a chance for families associated with the barracks and the local community to get together. There were quite a few different types of ethnic dancing. This group of Bangra dancers invited members of the audience to join in. In this picture I recognise Lorrain Oates (ex Mayor), [&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":[232],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-dalton-barracks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","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=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}