{"id":22867,"date":"2019-07-16T23:23:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T22:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22867"},"modified":"2019-07-16T23:23:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T22:23:47","slug":"abingdon-swans-could-avoid-the-2019-upping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22867","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Swans could avoid the 2019 Upping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19071401.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Swans\" \/><br \/>\nThe traditional Swan Upping will arrive this Friday in Abingdon. It is the annual census and inspection and ringing of the swans led my the master of the Queen&#8217;s swans.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19071405.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Swans\" \/><br \/>\nThere are a family of&nbsp; six cygnets, mum and dad, who can be seen on the River Thames in Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19071406.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Swans\" \/><br \/>\nThey could escape being upped if they stay near Abingdon Lock as the swan upping normally ends at Abingdon Bridge.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19071406a.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Swans\" \/><br \/>\nThe swan upping is partly ceremonial but does include a number of scientists who want to study what is happening to the swan population year by year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The traditional Swan Upping will arrive this Friday in Abingdon. It is the annual census and inspection and ringing of the swans led my the master of the Queen&#8217;s swans. There are a family of&nbsp; six cygnets, mum and dad, who can be seen on the River Thames in Abingdon. They could escape being upped [&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-22867","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\/22867","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=22867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}