{"id":15,"date":"2010-04-14T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/daybyday\/2010\/04\/14\/goodbye-old-gaol-pool\/"},"modified":"2010-04-14T23:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T23:10:00","slug":"goodbye-old-gaol-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Old Gaol Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/09041403-300x214.jpg\" \/><br \/>Through the rubble, as the Old Gaol out-buildings are demolished, I can just about make out a sign&#8230;<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/09041406-300x198.jpg\" \/><br \/>It says &#8220;POOL DEPTH HERE 2.0 m. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>That must be the deep end&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I still find it difficult to work out the geography of this swimming pool from outside, but must have swam many thousands of lengths inside its walls.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/09041407-300x206.jpg\" \/><br \/>To the left is the balcony where there was a bar and people could relax with a drink and look down, at odd moments, at the pool below. In the late evening music played and it was like syncopated swimming.<\/p>\n<p>Further along to the left, next to the KOMATSU, is a balcony from where I watched down as our two children flapped as they tried to swim their first widths near the shallow end &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Those days are just a memory and the building will soon be gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the rubble, as the Old Gaol out-buildings are demolished, I can just about make out a sign&#8230;It says &#8220;POOL DEPTH HERE 2.0 m. &#8220; That must be the deep end&#8230; I still find it difficult to work out the geography of this swimming pool from outside, but must have swam many thousands of lengths [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","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=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}