{"id":19537,"date":"2017-11-17T23:15:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T22:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19537"},"modified":"2017-11-17T23:15:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T22:15:50","slug":"reflections-on-the-river-thames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19537","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on The River Thames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"River Thames\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17111701.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThanks to John for emailing this wonderful picture &#8211; &#8216;an illusion of lips from red bushes reflecting in water of the River Thames&#8217;.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"River Thames\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17111704.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nNearer to town I too had a walk in the November sunshine by the River Thames at lunchtime today.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"River Thames\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17111702.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nFor the first time in ages I pushed open the metal gate to the Old Gaol grounds. There is a key pad by the gate but it is left open to visitors during reasonable weekday hours.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"River Thames\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17111703.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe sunlight was dazzling in the direction of St Helen&#8217;s Church.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"River Thames\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17111708.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nLooking back to the Nags Head Inn the reflections were as clear as a mirror. The Old Gaol is a prime location for anybody wanting to run a restaurant in Abingdon, by the River &#8211; with stunning views.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to John for emailing this wonderful picture &#8211; &#8216;an illusion of lips from red bushes reflecting in water of the River Thames&#8217;. Nearer to town I too had a walk in the November sunshine by the River Thames at lunchtime today. For the first time in ages I pushed open the metal gate to [&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-19537","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\/19537","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=19537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}