{"id":120,"date":"2009-12-31T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2009\/12\/31\/the-mill-stream\/"},"modified":"2009-12-31T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T13:42:00","slug":"the-mill-stream-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"The Mill Stream"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09123111.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The Vale of the White Horse is the valley of the Ock, a stream which joins the Thames from the west at Abingdon. The pictures were taken today. Four rivers including the Ock were put on flood watch yesterday but no problems yet &#8230;<br \/><span style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09123103.jpg\" \/><\/span><br \/>Here is the first stanza of a poem written in 1951 by Phyllis Dawson Clark celebrating the Ock, and called:  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Mill Stream<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Down from the chalky range of Berkshire hills<br \/>Stamped with the cave-man&#8217;s god, a lean white horse;<br \/>Through rustling cornfields, by a dozen mills<br \/>Whose wheels are long since rusty, and across<br \/>A thistle wast where winter storms have laid<br \/>To rest the hollow trunks, where brittle rot<br \/>Harbours the comfrey seedlings that have strayed;<br \/>Where centuries of blue forget-me-not<br \/>Have sighed away their days unseen, alone,<br \/>And sprays of blushing dog-rose bend to kiss<br \/>Their own reflection in a pool that&#8217;s known<br \/>A thousand summers just as sweet as this, &#8212;<br \/>By the wild rhubarb leaves and giant dock,<br \/>Under the willow arches flows the winding Ock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vale of the White Horse is the valley of the Ock, a stream which joins the Thames from the west at Abingdon. The pictures were taken today. Four rivers including the Ock were put on flood watch yesterday but no problems yet &#8230;Here is the first stanza of a poem written in 1951 by [&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-120","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\/120","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=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}