{"id":256,"date":"2009-08-17T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2009\/08\/17\/griffs-legacy\/"},"modified":"2009-08-17T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T23:12:00","slug":"griffs-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"Griff&#8217;s Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During his talk, last Thursday, Griff Rhys Jones was encouraging people to use the waterways, and said it is wonderful to go along small rivers where everything is unspoilt&#8230;<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09081701.jpg\" \/><br \/>Today in such a spirit we went for a walk down towards swift ditch, but couldn&#8217;t get through the usual way from Abingdon Lock because the environment agency are reinforcing some of the river bank.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09081703.jpg\" \/><br \/>Having gone the long way round guided by the many diversion signs we did eventually get there&#8230;<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09081706.jpg\" \/><br \/>There was evidence of more repairs about to happen on the railway sleeper bridge over the first swift ditch channel.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09081709.jpg\" \/><br \/>When we reached the second channel, the one that passes through the original pound lock, we saw not just one or two boats&#8230;<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09081705.jpg\" \/><br \/>They just kept coming&#8230;<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09081707.jpg\" \/><br \/>Harry and me counted at least ten boats going under the footbridge. Could this be Griff&#8217;s Legacy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his talk, last Thursday, Griff Rhys Jones was encouraging people to use the waterways, and said it is wonderful to go along small rivers where everything is unspoilt&#8230;Today in such a spirit we went for a walk down towards swift ditch, but couldn&#8217;t get through the usual way from Abingdon Lock because the environment [&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-256","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\/256","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=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}