{"id":8816,"date":"2013-05-11T21:33:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T20:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8816"},"modified":"2013-05-11T21:33:23","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T20:33:23","slug":"mr-hemmings-day-of-dance-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8816","title":{"rendered":"Mr Hemmings Day of Dance &#8211; 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13051102.jpg\" alt=\"Mr Hemmings Day of Dance - 2013\" \/><br \/>\nAlong Ock Street, and in the town centre, there was dancing by <a href=\"http:\/\/mrhemmings.org.uk\/\">Mr Hemmings&#8217; Traditional Abingdon Morris Dancers<\/a> and visiting sides.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13051105.jpg\" alt=\"Mr Hemmings Day of Dance - 2013\" \/><br \/>\nMr Hemmings Day of Dance is a celebration of the birthday of Tom Hemmings who rejuvenated Abingdon Morris in the early 20th century.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13051119.jpg\" alt=\"Mr Hemmings Day of Dance - 2013\" \/><br \/>\nMorris Dancing no longer seems such a quaint old custom.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13051111.jpg\" alt=\"Mr Hemmings Day of Dance - 2013\" \/><br \/>\nThere are probably more morris dancers now as there have ever been. By today&#8217;s evidence many were young, and many female.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13051115.jpg\" alt=\"Mr Hemmings Day of Dance - 2013\" \/><br \/>\nThe Summertown Morris from Oxford only started up a couple of years ago and have an excellent group.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13051106.jpg\" alt=\"Mr Hemmings Day of Dance - 2013\" \/><br \/>\nAfter all the teams had done a turn or two on the Market Place &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13051109.jpg\" alt=\"Mr Hemmings Day of Dance - 2013\" \/><br \/>\nall the groups came to together and did a mass dance. Then they went back to dance at pubs along Ock Street.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve uploaded the mass dance to &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ob66bmfMZgs&amp;feature=youtu.be\">youtube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along Ock Street, and in the town centre, there was dancing by Mr Hemmings&#8217; Traditional Abingdon Morris Dancers and visiting sides. Mr Hemmings Day of Dance is a celebration of the birthday of Tom Hemmings who rejuvenated Abingdon Morris in the early 20th century. Morris Dancing no longer seems such a quaint old custom. There [&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-8816","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\/8816","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=8816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}