{"id":11941,"date":"2014-07-18T18:11:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T17:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11941"},"modified":"2014-07-18T18:11:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T17:11:49","slug":"swan-upping-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11941","title":{"rendered":"Swan Upping 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14071814.jpg\" alt=\"Swan Upping\" \/><br \/>\nThe Swan Uppers completed their five day annual census of swans in Abingdon-on-Thames this afternoon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14071805.jpg\" alt=\"Swan Upping\" \/><br \/>\nThey caught a swan and 5 cygnets off Wilsham Road in Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14071810.jpg\" alt=\"Swan Upping\" \/><br \/>\nSwan Upping is partly ceremonial and partly scientific. Swans are  rounded up, caught, marked, and then released.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14071811.jpg\" alt=\"Swan Upping\" \/><br \/>\nThere were more swans on the Thames this year than last.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14071815.jpg\" alt=\"Swan Upping\" \/><br \/>\nThe ceremonial part ended at Abingdon Bridge with a toast to &#8216;The Queen&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swan Uppers completed their five day annual census of swans in Abingdon-on-Thames this afternoon. They caught a swan and 5 cygnets off Wilsham Road in Abingdon. Swan Upping is partly ceremonial and partly scientific. Swans are rounded up, caught, marked, and then released. There were more swans on the Thames this year than last. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-river-thames","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941","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=11941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}