{"id":27191,"date":"2021-05-12T23:30:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T22:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27191"},"modified":"2021-05-12T23:30:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T22:30:06","slug":"jetty-and-portage-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27191","title":{"rendered":"Jetty and Portage complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21051203.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nA correspondent sent me some pictures to show that the new jetty at Abingdon Lock is now complete.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21051201.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBoats go one side,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21051202.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nand canoe portage the other.<\/p>\n<p>A jetty is a structure that projects from land out into water. It may also be a walkway on water. The word is from the French word jet\u00e9e, &#8216;thrown&#8217;, signifying something thrown out.<\/p>\n<p>Portage is the practice of carrying water craft or cargo over land. It is from the French word &#8216;Porter&#8217; to wear or to carry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A correspondent sent me some pictures to show that the new jetty at Abingdon Lock is now complete. Boats go one side, and canoe portage the other. A jetty is a structure that projects from land out into water. It may also be a walkway on water. The word is from the French word jet\u00e9e, [&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-27191","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\/27191","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=27191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}