{"id":12119,"date":"2014-08-13T10:44:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T09:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12119"},"modified":"2014-08-13T10:44:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T09:44:56","slug":"river-ock-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12119","title":{"rendered":"River Ock in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/\/14081302.jpg\" alt=\"River Ock\" \/><br \/>\nThe lower stream of the River Ock shimmers as it flows towards the River Thames. It is a lovely way to walk in, or out, of town from the Drayton Road, and forms Abingdon&#8217;s own Mesopotamia (from the Greek, meaning &#8216;between two rivers&#8217;). But it does need taking care of from time to time, not just from flooding.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/\/14081303.jpg\" alt=\"River Ock\" \/><br \/>\nHimalayan Balsam is gaining ground again. This invasive species overtops the nettles in one place. Some stalks growing from the banks are 8 or 9 feet tall.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/\/14081301.jpg\" alt=\"River Ock\" \/><br \/>\nThe additional drainage channel from the Ock, that cuts across to Caldecott Road, is also overgrown with nettles and other weeds. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lower stream of the River Ock shimmers as it flows towards the River Thames. It is a lovely way to walk in, or out, of town from the Drayton Road, and forms Abingdon&#8217;s own Mesopotamia (from the Greek, meaning &#8216;between two rivers&#8217;). But it does need taking care of from time to time, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-river-ock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12119","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=12119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}