{"id":10967,"date":"2014-03-01T23:11:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T22:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=10967"},"modified":"2014-03-01T23:11:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T22:11:28","slug":"st-davids-day-on-radley-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=10967","title":{"rendered":"St David&#8217;s Day at Radley Lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/15030112.jpg\" alt=\"St Davids Day on Radley Lakes\" \/><br \/>\nThe small triangle of land in the south east corner of Thrupp Lake, the largest of the Radley Lakes, is being cultivated as a wild flower meadow by The Earth Trust and has been called St David&#8217;s Meadow. I&#8217;m not sure why.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/15030105.jpg\" alt=\"St Davids Day on Radley Lakes\" \/><br \/>\nSt David lived in Wales in the early days of Christianity. He set up churches and monasteries. His best known miracle (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_David\">according to Wikipedia<\/a>) was when he was preaching and the land on which he stood rose up to form a small hill.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/15030109.jpg\" alt=\"St Davids Day on Radley Lakes\" \/><br \/>\nIt is a minor miracle that Thrupp Lake survived the plans to fill it with ash from Didcot A Power Station. The lakes are still here in 2014 as a wetland habitat &#8211; now managed by The Earth Trust, and Didcot A has been closed down.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/15030108.jpg\" alt=\"St Davids Day on Radley Lakes\" \/><br \/>\nThe birds and fishes now have a good chance to increase and multiply in the lake, and the wild flowers should flourish in St David&#8217;s Meadow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The small triangle of land in the south east corner of Thrupp Lake, the largest of the Radley Lakes, is being cultivated as a wild flower meadow by The Earth Trust and has been called St David&#8217;s Meadow. I&#8217;m not sure why. St David lived in Wales in the early days of Christianity. He set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10967","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=10967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}