{"id":1392,"date":"2010-08-30T23:55:17","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T22:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2010-08-30T23:55:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T22:55:17","slug":"abingdon-free-for-all-boat-mooring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=1392","title":{"rendered":"In Abingdon the moorings are free but a bit of a free for all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bank Holiday Monday on the River\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10082901a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOn Saturday was the Mayor&#8217;s Junior fishing contest. Bank Holiday Monday saw the senior event with over 30 contestents. It began at 10 am and ended at 3 pm.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bank Holiday Monday on the River\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10082902a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe boating season does restrict the number of good pitches. Abingdon does have free moorings. <\/p>\n<p>Upstream from the bridge there are no fixed moorings and boat owners hammer in their own spikes and get very close together. In places they double park.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bank Holiday Monday on the River\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10082903a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe best catches during the day were down near the marina where some of the fishermen caught over 18 lbs. This chap near the bridge got about 13 lbs &#8211; the best in his stretch of the river.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday was the Mayor&#8217;s Junior fishing contest. Bank Holiday Monday saw the senior event with over 30 contestents. It began at 10 am and ended at 3 pm. The boating season does restrict the number of good pitches. Abingdon does have free moorings. Upstream from the bridge there are no fixed moorings and boat [&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":[249,302],"class_list":["post-1392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-river-thames","tag-fishing","tag-mooring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392","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=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}