{"id":30981,"date":"2023-07-03T21:48:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T20:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30981"},"modified":"2023-07-03T21:48:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T20:48:48","slug":"boating-on-the-river-thames-through-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30981","title":{"rendered":"Boating on the River Thames through Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023063002.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThis picture of a large group of youngsters and instructors from the Kingfisher Canoe Club&#8217;s was taken a few days ago. The new club hut and store was opened near Abingdon Lock in 2021 and the club&#8217;s future has been secured.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023063008.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nFour men rowing a boat through Abingdon. The town was described as quiet, respectable, clean, and dull by Jerome K Jerome in his book &#8216;Three Men in a Boat&#8217;, published in 1889.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023063010.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nTwo barges emerge from Abingdon Lock with a word and a wave. Abingdon Lock is known for its friendly atmosphere, where Richard, Frank, and others are helpful, friendly, and knowledgeable.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/52023063014.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSalters Steamers are often seen in Abingdon with chartered boats or regular sailings. They now require groups of 30 or more to have pre-booked to run their regular sailings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This picture of a large group of youngsters and instructors from the Kingfisher Canoe Club&#8217;s was taken a few days ago. The new club hut and store was opened near Abingdon Lock in 2021 and the club&#8217;s future has been secured. Four men rowing a boat through Abingdon. The town was described as quiet, respectable, [&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-30981","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\/30981","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=30981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}