{"id":28537,"date":"2022-02-04T00:03:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T23:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28537"},"modified":"2022-02-04T00:03:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T23:03:32","slug":"the-seven-wonders-of-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28537","title":{"rendered":"The Seven Wonders of Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/20220201.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe City Daily Photo Theme for February was power but I am too late for that. It is February 3rd and entries have now closed.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/20220202.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe weir is one of the seven wonders of Abingdon and could potentially generate several hundred horse power. A weir is a barrier built across a river to raise the water level on the upstream side, allowing water to flow steadily over. On the River Thames weirs are alongside locks, to let boats pass, and fish passes.<\/p>\n<p>My seven wonders of Abingdon are:<br \/>\n* Abingdon Weir<br \/>\n* The County Hall<br \/>\n* Abingdon Bridge<br \/>\n* St Helen&#8217;s Church<br \/>\n* Long Alley Almshouse<br \/>\n* Abbey Buildings<br \/>\n* Albert Park<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Abingdon Weir Power\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/925FSq3XU_I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nHere is a short video of the weir to show it deserves to be in the top seven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City Daily Photo Theme for February was power but I am too late for that. It is February 3rd and entries have now closed.\u00a0 The weir is one of the seven wonders of Abingdon and could potentially generate several hundred horse power. A weir is a barrier built across a river to raise the [&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-28537","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\/28537","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=28537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}