{"id":13399,"date":"2015-02-16T00:40:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T23:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13399"},"modified":"2015-02-16T00:40:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T23:40:16","slug":"a-misty-start-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13399","title":{"rendered":"A Misty Start in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/150215008.jpg\" alt=\"A Misty Start\" \/><br \/>\nRowers from Abingdon School, and Abingdon Rowing Club, are often to be seen out &#8211; early &#8211; on one of the best stretches of the River Thames &#8211; that is the stretch between Abingdon Bridge and Culham Lock.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/150215001.jpg\" alt=\"A Misty Start\" \/><br \/>\nThe willow tree leaning from the Margaret Brown gardens trails weeping branches near the water.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/150215005.jpg\" alt=\"A Misty Start\" \/><br \/>\nThe adult swans have parted company from their young. I read, while investigating the origins of Valentine&#8217;s Day yesterday, of an old Oxfordshire country notion that birds start pairing up from February 14th.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/150215020.jpg\" alt=\"A Misty Start\" \/><br \/>\nThe mist soon lifts and, as the sky turns blue, St Helen&#8217;s Church becomes as clear as the Iron Bridge. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rowers from Abingdon School, and Abingdon Rowing Club, are often to be seen out &#8211; early &#8211; on one of the best stretches of the River Thames &#8211; that is the stretch between Abingdon Bridge and Culham Lock. The willow tree leaning from the Margaret Brown gardens trails weeping branches near the water. The adult [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-river-thames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13399","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=13399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}