{"id":1085,"date":"2007-07-05T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2007\/07\/05\/kingfisher-fledgling\/"},"modified":"2007-07-05T19:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T19:39:00","slug":"kingfisher-fledgling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=1085","title":{"rendered":"Kingfisher Fledgling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07070401.jpg\" \/><br \/>Over the last seven weeks I&#8217;ve been doing a beginners Kayak course with the <a href=\"http:\/\/kingfishercanoeclub.co.uk\/\">Kingfisher Canoe Club<\/a>, and yesterday we all earned our one star <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20020802083502\/http:\/\/www.bcu.org.uk:80\/\">BCU<\/a> certificate. It was a bit like getting a swimming certificate at school.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/helloworld.jpg\" \/><br \/>Afterwards we, the new fledglings, had a celebration BBQ with the more experienced Kingfishers. Not insects or minnows!!!<\/p>\n<p>The beginners course was great fun. I only wished I had a waterproof camera. We played water polo near the mill, did white watering at Sutton Pools, and navigated through the low hanging trees down swift ditch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last seven weeks I&#8217;ve been doing a beginners Kayak course with the Kingfisher Canoe Club, and yesterday we all earned our one star BCU certificate. It was a bit like getting a swimming certificate at school. Afterwards we, the new fledglings, had a celebration BBQ with the more experienced Kingfishers. Not insects or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","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=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}