{"id":22421,"date":"2019-04-22T22:17:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T22:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22421"},"modified":"2019-04-22T22:17:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T22:17:11","slug":"defending-our-waterways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22421","title":{"rendered":"Defending our Waterways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lovely Bank Holiday Monday here in Abingdon. Our waterways are secure, or are they?.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19042203.jpg\" alt=\"Defending our waterways\" \/><br \/>\nPeople may sometimes wonder whether noticeboards at Abingdon Lock are put there for amusement or safety.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19042202.jpg\" alt=\"Defending our waterways\" \/><br \/>\nIn this case it was amusing but important safety information.  The Captain of Le Boat from Benson hit a shoal (sediment bank), and needed help to reverse to get back into the navigation channel.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19042205.jpg\" alt=\"Defending our waterways\" \/><br \/>\nAfter last weekend&#8217;s&nbsp; WWII re-enactment event a new board has appeared at Abingdon Lock, about the Upper Thames Patrol &#8211; Defending the River against the Threat of Invasion.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19042204.jpg\" alt=\"Defending our waterways\" \/><br \/>\nThe biggest danger to our waterways is the lack of funding to the environment agency. They do not have enough resources to keep our waterways safe for casual boaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lovely Bank Holiday Monday here in Abingdon. Our waterways are secure, or are they?. People may sometimes wonder whether noticeboards at Abingdon Lock are put there for amusement or safety. In this case it was amusing but important safety information. The Captain of Le Boat from Benson hit a shoal (sediment bank), and needed [&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-22421","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\/22421","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=22421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}