{"id":1133,"date":"2007-05-13T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-13T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2007\/05\/13\/dragon-boat-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-05-13T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-13T14:30:00","slug":"dragon-boat-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=1133","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Boat 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07051306.jpg\" \/><br \/>Each crew has three qualifying races to try and get through to the final. So they embark near the finish.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07051301.jpg\" \/><br \/>Paddle up to the start point, and with drum beating, thunder down the river,<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07051305.jpg\" \/><br \/>back to the finishing line.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07051302.jpg\" \/><br \/>The weather could have been better for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abingdon-rotary.org.uk\/\">Rotary Club of Abingdon Vespers<\/a>, who stage the event. It was either pouring down<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07051304.jpg\" \/><br \/>or just drizzling.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07051303.jpg\" \/><br \/>But despite that, there were still a lot of people up for it, but maybe not as many as <a href=\"http:\/\/abingdon2006.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/dragon-boat-racing.html\">last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each crew has three qualifying races to try and get through to the final. So they embark near the finish.Paddle up to the start point, and with drum beating, thunder down the river,back to the finishing line.The weather could have been better for the Rotary Club of Abingdon Vespers, who stage the event. It was [&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-1133","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\/1133","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=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}