{"id":13202,"date":"2015-01-11T21:49:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T20:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13202"},"modified":"2015-01-11T21:49:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T20:49:42","slug":"bring-pooh-sticks-to-abingdon-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13202","title":{"rendered":"Bring Pooh Sticks to Abingdon in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15011104.jpg\" alt=\"Bring Pooh Sticks to Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nThe World Pooh Sticks Championship have been held a few miles downstream from Abingdon, at Day&#8217;s Lock, since 1983. The competition has grown and the organisers are looking for a new home. They require: a bridge with room for six competitors; over a river with a moderate flow at all times; where there is no risk of hitting passing boats. The site also needs nearby parking for over 300 vehicles, and room for side entertainments.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15011102.jpg\" alt=\"Bring Pooh Sticks to Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nAt Abingdon Bridge there is plenty of room for parking and side entertainments, and the flow is moderate. The main objection might be that competitors would have to cross a busy road to see their sticks re-emerge the other side.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15011105.jpg\" alt=\"Bring Pooh Sticks to Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nWe play pooh sticks on the River Ock near Abingdon town centre.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15011106.jpg\" alt=\"Bring Pooh Sticks to Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nBut the current here is too extreme for a world championship. Sticks plummet over a weir and can get caught in the back tow.<\/p>\n<p>But if anybody does know of a good venue in Abingdon, or way round these problems, please let the <strong>Bring Pooh Sticks to Abingdon in 2015<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/abingdon-town-council-saveourpooh\">campaigners know<\/a>. It would be very good if this event could come to Abingdon.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">(Pooh Sticks was invented by A.A Milne for his son Christopher Robin &#8211; named after his son&#8217;s bear Winnie-The-Pooh. The game requires contestants to drop a stick from a bridge into a river. The competitive element is seeing whose stick crosses the finishing line first.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Pooh Sticks Championship have been held a few miles downstream from Abingdon, at Day&#8217;s Lock, since 1983. The competition has grown and the organisers are looking for a new home. They require: a bridge with room for six competitors; over a river with a moderate flow at all times; where there is no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13202","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=13202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}