{"id":21374,"date":"2018-10-20T19:02:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T18:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21374"},"modified":"2018-10-20T19:02:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T18:02:44","slug":"river-thames-litter-pick-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21374","title":{"rendered":"River Thames Litter Pick in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18102009.jpg\" alt=\"River Thames Litter Pick\" \/><br \/>\nLand and canoe litter pickers lined up for a photo taken by the Abingdon Herald before the start of the morning&#8217;s litter pick &#8211; along the Thames between Abingdon Lock and Abingdon Marina.<br \/>\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18102008.jpg\" alt=\"River Thames Litter Pick\" \/><br \/>\nIt was a lovely October day for such an event. Not only were AbiBinit! and Abingdon Carbon Cutters involved,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18102010.jpg\" alt=\"River Thames Litter Pick\" \/><br \/>\nand the Kingfisher Canoe Club,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18102004.jpg\" alt=\"River Thames Litter Pick\" \/><br \/>\nthere was also Colin, who is often to be seen collecting litter, with his trolley. He has been doing it voluntarily for many years and got a Mayor&#8217;s Award in 2014.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18102013.jpg\" alt=\"River Thames Litter Pick\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;Two or three hours later there was a pile of blue bags at Abingdon Lock ready to be sorted. The bigger stuff had been moved over to the top of the lock. <\/p>\n<p>The canoes were not only useful for litter picking the river, they also transported the heavier stuff and bags up the river.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Land and canoe litter pickers lined up for a photo taken by the Abingdon Herald before the start of the morning&#8217;s litter pick &#8211; along the Thames between Abingdon Lock and Abingdon Marina. It was a lovely October day for such an event. Not only were AbiBinit! and Abingdon Carbon Cutters involved, and the Kingfisher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21374","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=21374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}