{"id":24825,"date":"2020-06-07T21:44:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T20:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24825"},"modified":"2020-06-07T21:44:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T20:44:54","slug":"evening-walk-by-the-river-thames-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24825","title":{"rendered":"Evening Walk by the River Thames in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20060804a.jpg\" alt=\"Evening Walk by the River Thames in Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nWe walked out this evening along St Helen&#8217;s Wharf in Abingdon. The wharf was in shadow apart from where a low wall let the sunlight through.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20060806.jpg\" alt=\"Evening Walk by the River Thames in Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nAlong Wilsham Road we saw the first fast moving rowing boat we had seen since the start of the lockdown.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20060805.jpg\" alt=\"Evening Walk by the River Thames in Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nIt was a Sunday evening and there were not many cars parked &#8211; just the usual line of fibreglass boats with tarpoulines.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20060807.jpg\" alt=\"Evening Walk by the River Thames in Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nAt Abingdon Marina a parent swan was guarding three cygnets. They were all busily preening themselves and not posing for the camera. Preening is a bird&#8217;s way of grooming its feathers to keep them in the best condition.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20060808.jpg\" alt=\"Evening Walk by the River Thames in Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nA lot more boats were moored at the Marina.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20060809.jpg\" alt=\"Evening Walk by the River Thames in Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nWe walked round the Marina Park and looked across the River Thames to where Swift Ditch ends. There is an elegant wooden bridge put there for the Thames Path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We walked out this evening along St Helen&#8217;s Wharf in Abingdon. The wharf was in shadow apart from where a low wall let the sunlight through. Along Wilsham Road we saw the first fast moving rowing boat we had seen since the start of the lockdown. It was a Sunday evening and there were not [&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-24825","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\/24825","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=24825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}