{"id":1738,"date":"2017-11-22T09:54:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T09:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2017-11-22T09:54:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T09:54:26","slug":"roman-road-christmas-fair-2017-saturday-16-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/?p=1738","title":{"rendered":"Roman Road Christmas Fair 2017 &#8211; Saturday 16 December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roman Road\u2019s Christmas Fair is back for the third year. The event runs from <strong>11am to 4pm<\/strong> in the Roman Road carpark.<\/p>\n<p>Local residents, businesses and community groups\u00a0are an integral part of the Roman Road Christmas Fair.\u00a0Local businesses contribute to the Santa\u2019s sack, local residents volunteer to help set up the site, local community groups and causes help put on the event. This is Bow\u2019s big annual jolly\u00a0that allows you to support and revel in your neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>Centre stage will be Santa, in the sparkliest grotto in East London we\u2019re sure, ready to dole out festive cheer and free gifts to\u00a0local children. With the help of local businesses\u00a0Santa has even added some star prizes\u00a0into the mix,\u00a0ready to be won by a handful of lucky children. After last year\u2019s queue to see Santa, there\u2019ll be some added entertainment while children wait.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be a winter market, featuring many traders local to east London. Children will be entertained with face painting and crafts and a choir. And there will be festive favourites in the form of mince pies, hot chocolate and mulled wine to get you in the mood.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can find out much more at the <a href=\"http:\/\/romanroadlondon.com\/event\/christmas-fair-2017\/\">romanroadlondon.com<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p>Credit: Photograph by Roman Koblov<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the festive fun and support local businesses at the third annual Christmas fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,5,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-culture","category-community-events","category-roman-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcara.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Christmas-2.png?fit=837%2C494&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4GT9s-s2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1740,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions\/1740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}