{"id":25354,"date":"2006-11-30T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/11\/30\/the-wise-man-built-his-house-upon-the-stilts\/"},"modified":"2006-11-30T21:57:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T21:57:00","slug":"the-wise-man-built-his-house-upon-the-stilts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25354","title":{"rendered":"The wise man built his house upon the Stilts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/1600\/767333\/stilts01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/320\/265443\/stilts01.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The County Hall stilts are an architectural feature, but the normal reason for building on stilts is more practical &#8211; to keep out of reach of flooding.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/1600\/496159\/stilts04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/320\/419695\/stilts04.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Here near the Ock these sheltered flats for the elderly are built on stilts, and it looks from this morning&#8217;s flood that the stilts are a wise precaution.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/1600\/512320\/stilts06.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/320\/434164\/stilts06.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Nearby is another place with houses upon stilts &#8211; just before the Ock enters the Thames. The Ock can quite easily flood near houses in town.<\/p>\n<p>The Thames normally only overflows on the opposite bank on fields&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/1600\/313826\/stilts07.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/320\/750767\/stilts07.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>..but that is not to say the Thames will not creep up places such as this public slipway.<\/p>\n<p>The owners have wisely slid down a thick  plastic shutter to protect their property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The County Hall stilts are an architectural feature, but the normal reason for building on stilts is more practical &#8211; to keep out of reach of flooding.Here near the Ock these sheltered flats for the elderly are built on stilts, and it looks from this morning&#8217;s flood that the stilts are a wise precaution.Nearby is [&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-25354","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\/25354","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=25354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}