{"id":10806,"date":"2014-02-10T00:02:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T23:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=10806"},"modified":"2014-02-10T00:02:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T23:02:04","slug":"the-abbey-meadow-water-park-lives-up-to-its-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=10806","title":{"rendered":"The Abbey Meadow Water Park lives up to its name."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14020930.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Meadow Water Park\" \/><br \/>\nWe had a lovely sunny day of it today. Flood tourists came to Abingdon to look out across the magnificent sight of so much water.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14020921.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Meadow Water Park\" \/><br \/>\nThe water level upstream from Abingdon Lock was almost as high as it has been.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14020904.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Meadow Water Park\" \/><br \/>\nDownstream from the Lock it was quite choppy as the wind sent waves back towards the Lock . Those lock gates are supposed to be renovated between January and March 2014 but there has been no chance of work starting yet.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14020918.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Meadow Water Park\" \/><br \/>\nPeople were suprised to see a vehicle attempt to drive along the road from Abingdon Lock back to the mainland. But having got some way it reversed back and then turned to return to the lock.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14020902.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Meadow Water Park\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abbey Meadow Water Park lives up to its name and warning &#8230;<em> &#8220;If you are standing in the water play area you will get wet.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a lovely sunny day of it today. Flood tourists came to Abingdon to look out across the magnificent sight of so much water. The water level upstream from Abingdon Lock was almost as high as it has been. Downstream from the Lock it was quite choppy as the wind sent waves back towards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10806","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=10806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}