{"id":11208,"date":"2014-04-06T20:59:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T19:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11208"},"modified":"2014-04-06T20:59:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T19:59:20","slug":"2014-abingdon-head-of-the-river-rowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11208","title":{"rendered":"2014 Abingdon Head of the River Rowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14040644.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Head of the River\" \/><br \/>\nMembers of Abingdon Rowing Club were working in the early hours making preparations, then welcoming and helping crews, for the 2014 Abingdon Head of the River rowing time trials.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14040603.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Head of the River\" \/><br \/>\nRye Farm Meadow, where boats were brought, is still soft in patches having been under water a lot of the winter.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14040604.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Head of the River\" \/><br \/>\nThe first of 4 divisions left the meadow before 9am to row downstream to the start near Culham weir. There were up to 90 boats in each division.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14040614.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Head of the River\" \/><br \/>\nThen at 9:30, 11:45, 14:00, and 16:15 boats raced upstream the 2000 metres to the finishing post, opposite Ferry Boat House on Wilsham Road.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14040617.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Head of the River\" \/><br \/>\nOn the same day as the University Boat Race, which Oxford were to win, rowers gave their all.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14040656.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Head of the River\" \/><br \/>\nAt Rye Farm Meadow where crews embarked and disembarked there was beer, homemade cakes, a BBQ, and entertainment by the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers.<\/p>\n<p>More pictures on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.687521404645752.1073741836.454845414580020&amp;type=1\">Abingdon Blog Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Abingdon Rowing Club were working in the early hours making preparations, then welcoming and helping crews, for the 2014 Abingdon Head of the River rowing time trials. Rye Farm Meadow, where boats were brought, is still soft in patches having been under water a lot of the winter. The first of 4 divisions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-river-thames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208","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=11208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}