{"id":17297,"date":"2016-10-12T22:27:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T21:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17297"},"modified":"2016-10-12T22:27:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T21:27:24","slug":"path-reveals-a-solitary-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17297","title":{"rendered":"Path reveals a solitary killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16100802.jpg\" alt=\"Path reveals a solitary killer\" \/><br \/>\nRunning alongside Ock Street, the River Ock has two branches.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16100801.jpg\" alt=\"Path reveals a solitary killer\" \/><br \/>\nBetween them lies a favorite walk of locals. It runs from St Helen&#8217;s Court in the town centre to Drayton Road.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16100803.jpg\" alt=\"Path reveals a solitary killer\" \/><br \/>\nThe path is out of site of the houses because of the cover of trees. There are crack willows beside the water, and Abingdon Green Gym have planted new trees in an area between the main path and a smaller path following the upper river.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16100901.jpg\" alt=\"Path reveals a solitary killer\" \/><br \/>\nIt is a place of natural beauty where wildlife can be seen. On Sunday we saw by chance a heron in action. Normally we just see herons standing waiting in the water, but this one was going for the kill.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16100903.jpg\" alt=\"Path reveals a solitary killer\" \/><br \/>\nIt caught what I fear was a water vole. An expert might know better.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16100902.jpg\" alt=\"Path reveals a solitary killer\" \/><br \/>\nThe heron then fought and dunked its victim repeatedly in the water. I hope it was a rat, but I fear it was a water vole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running alongside Ock Street, the River Ock has two branches. Between them lies a favorite walk of locals. It runs from St Helen&#8217;s Court in the town centre to Drayton Road. The path is out of site of the houses because of the cover of trees. There are crack willows beside the water, and Abingdon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-river-ock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17297","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=17297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}