{"id":17029,"date":"2016-09-04T18:59:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T17:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17029"},"modified":"2016-09-04T18:59:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T17:59:44","slug":"abingdon-dragon-boats-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17029","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Dragon Boats 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16090408.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Dragon Boats 2016\" \/><br \/>\nCrowds lined the banks of the River Thames for the 17th annual dragon boat racing organised by the Rotary Club of Abingdon Vesper.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16090401.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Dragon Boats 2016\" \/><br \/>\nThe Mayor of Abingdon, Councillor Alice Badcock, attended the event, and can be seen here with the Printer Pirates before their first race.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16090404.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Dragon Boats 2016\" \/><br \/>\nThere were 19 teams, listed in the programme, battling it out against other teams on the river. Money raised by teams through sponsorship goes to their own charity and towards charity projects organised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abingdon-rotary.org.uk\/\">Rotary Club of Abingdon Vesper<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16090403.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Dragon Boats 2016\" \/><br \/>\nCommunity stalls were also there raising money for charity and promoting forthcoming events. For example, the next <a href=\"http:\/\/raceforlife.cancerresearchuk.org\/index.html\">Race for Life<\/a> from the big pink battle HQ is a muddy obstacle course in South Park, Oxford on 17th September.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16090409.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Dragon Boats 2016\" \/><br \/>\nAlso there to make it a complete family fun day were a funfair, music, and refreshments tents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowds lined the banks of the River Thames for the 17th annual dragon boat racing organised by the Rotary Club of Abingdon Vesper. The Mayor of Abingdon, Councillor Alice Badcock, attended the event, and can be seen here with the Printer Pirates before their first race. There were 19 teams, listed in the programme, battling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17029","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=17029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}