{"id":20015,"date":"2018-02-06T23:11:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T22:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20015"},"modified":"2018-02-06T23:11:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T22:11:12","slug":"dragons-teeth-by-the-river-ock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20015","title":{"rendered":"Dragons Teeth by the River Ock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18020605.jpg\" alt=\"Dragons Teeth\" \/><br \/>\nBack in 1940,  after the fall of France, the UK was at risk of a German invasion. The River Ock seems to have been consolidated as a defense line to stop the <em>&#8216;Blitzkrieg&#8217;<\/em>. There is a pillbox one side of the river, over by the old path of the canal.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18020601.jpg\" alt=\"Dragons Teeth\" \/><br \/>\nOn the other side are a set of concrete dragons teeth &#8211; positioned to stop Hitler&#8217;s tanks if they try to dodge the River and the other water-filled channels. At this time of year, the vegetation has died back showing the green dragons teeth.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18020603.jpg\" alt=\"Dragons Teeth\" \/><br \/>\nBehind the dragons teeth there is an area where willows lay. They too are covered in green at this time of year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1940, after the fall of France, the UK was at risk of a German invasion. The River Ock seems to have been consolidated as a defense line to stop the &#8216;Blitzkrieg&#8217;. There is a pillbox one side of the river, over by the old path of the canal. On the other side are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20015","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=20015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}