{"id":224,"date":"2010-05-09T23:18:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T22:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=224"},"modified":"2010-05-09T23:18:13","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T22:18:13","slug":"2010-dragon-boat-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"2010 Dragon Boat Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As in previous years, rain or shine, the 2010 Dragon Boat Racing was a great event. It had all the ingredients &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10050918.jpg\" alt=\"practising on dry land\" \/><br \/>\nThe dry run as teams tried out their oars before boarding &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10050905.jpg\" alt=\"Vikings waiting to board Dragon Boats\" \/><br \/>\nThe fancy dress teams waiting to board&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10050927.jpg\" alt=\"Banging the Drum\" \/><br \/>\nThe team leader banging the drum&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10050928.jpg\" alt=\"People watching\" \/><br \/>\nThe crowds watching and cheering the teams, with stalls and a funfair behind&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10050908.jpg\" alt=\"Pirates boat drives on\" \/><br \/>\nThe teams powering down the course as hawaii-five-o played&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10050926.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon School Team Hug\" \/><br \/>\nThe Team Spirit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And of course raising money for good causes&#8230; Each team raised money for charity through sponsorship. The target was \u00a32000 per team, with one third of the money going to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abingdon-rotary.org.uk\">Rotary Club of Abingdon Vesper&#8217;s<\/a> charity fund and two thirds to the team&#8217;s nominated charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As in previous years, rain or shine, the 2010 Dragon Boat Racing was a great event. It had all the ingredients &#8230; The dry run as teams tried out their oars before boarding &#8230; The fancy dress teams waiting to board&#8230; The team leader banging the drum&#8230; The crowds watching and cheering the teams, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,138,151],"tags":[237],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-river-thames","category-sport","tag-dragon-boats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","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=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}