{"id":9861,"date":"2013-10-09T00:45:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T23:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9861"},"modified":"2013-10-09T00:45:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T23:45:21","slug":"second-evening-of-the-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9861","title":{"rendered":"Second Evening of the Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/131008006.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Michaelmas Fair\" \/><br \/>\nThe Narrows opened during the second day of the Fair and looked to be doing a roaring trade.<\/p>\n<p>However some things never change in Abingdon. There was Bell Ringing Practice on Tuesday evening at St Nics. At times they were edging it against the pumping volume of the Fairground.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/131008011.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Michaelmas Fair\" \/><br \/>\nDown West St Helen Street there was Pudding Night at Rosie&#8217;s Tea Room. On the menu was: poached pear with chocolate sauce, treacle tart with clotted cream, Eve&#8217;s pudding with custard &#8211; they were not tempted by candy floss or toffee apples just up the road.<\/p>\n<p>And after a poor start to the season, and what seems to have been a radical change of players to cut costs, Abingdon United got their first league win, a half mile from the fair.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/131008003.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Michaelmas Fair\" \/><br \/>\nThanks to Rob for sending some pictures of the Fair which has had two good days this year, and has drawn big crowds.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/131008002.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Michaelmas Fair\" \/><br \/>\nThere were no live gold fish prizes to be won this year, but plenty of cuddly toys.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/131008015.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Michaelmas Fair\" \/><br \/>\nEasily the most popular creature in 2013 were Minions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Narrows opened during the second day of the Fair and looked to be doing a roaring trade. However some things never change in Abingdon. There was Bell Ringing Practice on Tuesday evening at St Nics. At times they were edging it against the pumping volume of the Fairground. Down West St Helen Street 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":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9861","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=9861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}