{"id":25081,"date":"2006-05-14T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-14T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/05\/14\/dragon-boat-racing\/"},"modified":"2006-05-14T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-14T19:20:00","slug":"dragon-boat-racing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25081","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Boat Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06051401.jpg\" \/><br \/>I followed the crowds across&#8230; This group are only walking around from Wilsham Road on the opposite bank.<\/p>\n<p>The T-shirt reads &#8220;Blessed are the losers for they determine the winners.&#8221;<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06051402.jpg\" \/><br \/>Hosted by the Rotary Club of Abingdon, the Dragon Boat Racing is now an annual event where as well as the races, there is a fun fair and lots of stalls.<\/p>\n<p>Rotarians spend a lot of time and effort raising funds for charitable purposes. &#8216;Service above Self&#8217; is the Rotary Club&#8217;s motto.<\/p>\n<p>The starter is trying to get the boats in line at the start of a race.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06051403.jpg\" \/><br \/>The 40 feet long dragon boats were propelled by crews of 16 paddlers, many of them dressed to a theme. This is the cops and robbers team. Each boat was guided by a qualified helm and kept in rhythm by a drummer seated at one end.<\/p>\n<p>Each team raced at least three times along a 250m course. The 12 fastest teams then competed in two finals.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06051404.jpg\" \/><br \/>The race shown here was the runners up final (the 7th to the 12th fastest). The boat winning at the half-way stage, ended up finishing last. There had been a colission and the judges made them rerun the race. This brings to mind the bible verse &#8220;He that would be first in the Dragon Boats will be last&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I followed the crowds across&#8230; This group are only walking around from Wilsham Road on the opposite bank. The T-shirt reads &#8220;Blessed are the losers for they determine the winners.&#8221;Hosted by the Rotary Club of Abingdon, the Dragon Boat Racing is now an annual event where as well as the races, there is a fun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25081","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=25081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}