{"id":3217,"date":"2011-04-14T00:05:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T23:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=3217"},"modified":"2011-04-14T00:05:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T23:05:34","slug":"on-missing-the-regatta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=3217","title":{"rendered":"On Missing the Regatta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11041203.jpg\" alt=\"Water\" \/><br \/>\nOne event I usually cover is the annual Abingdon Head of the River Regatta. This crew were <strong>not<\/strong> involved.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11041202.jpg\" alt=\"Water\" \/><br \/>\nThey are just catching their breath after a training run .<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11041211.jpg\" alt=\"Water\" \/><br \/>\nOn Sunday, I walked Harry round South Abingdon in the morning before church,\u00a0 then in the afternoon we both took him beside a shallow stream and through some woods in Steventon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11041209.jpg\" alt=\"Water\" \/><br \/>\nWe saw our first ducklings of the year there. Returning about 5 PM I noticed from St Helens Wharf\u00a0 crowds of cars further along the river and realised it was Regatta Day. Lots of pictures of that though at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigblade-photos.com\/rowing\/events\/2011\/abh11\/index.html\">Big Blade<\/a>. But no pictures of Abingdon Rowing Club crews who are too busy organising the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One event I usually cover is the annual Abingdon Head of the River Regatta. This crew were not involved. They are just catching their breath after a training run . On Sunday, I walked Harry round South Abingdon in the morning before church,\u00a0 then in the afternoon we both took him beside a shallow stream [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal","category-river-thames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217","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=3217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}