{"id":22880,"date":"2019-07-19T22:38:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T21:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22880"},"modified":"2019-07-19T22:38:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T21:38:08","slug":"swan-uppers-at-abingdon-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22880","title":{"rendered":"Swan Uppers at Abingdon Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WAVPtzFuZIc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nIn the video above the Queen&#8217;s men, and the Vintners and Dyers teams, make a toast to the Queen at the end of the five day annual swan upping census.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19071903.jpg\" alt=\"Swan Uppers\" \/><br \/>\nThe census ends at Abingdon Bridge where a crowd had been waiting in the rain.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19071904.jpg\" alt=\"Swan Uppers\" \/><br \/>\nSome people found places to shelter during the wait.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19071905.jpg\" alt=\"Swan Uppers\" \/><br \/>\nThere is no set time for their arrival. It takes as long as it takes and the swan uppers arrived at about 5:30 pm. They had caught&nbsp; and inspected 147 swans (if my hearing is correct) and that meant they were kept busy.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19071902.jpg\" alt=\"Swan Uppers\" \/><br \/>\nThey deserved their drop of rum after all their efforts to count and maintain the swan population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the video above the Queen&#8217;s men, and the Vintners and Dyers teams, make a toast to the Queen at the end of the five day annual swan upping census. The census ends at Abingdon Bridge where a crowd had been waiting in the rain. Some people found places to shelter during the wait. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ceremony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22880","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=22880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}