{"id":35030,"date":"2026-02-16T15:56:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35030"},"modified":"2026-02-16T15:56:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:56:50","slug":"beneath-a-favourite-willow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35030","title":{"rendered":"River Thames and Sunshine at Margaret Brown Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026021607.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nToday\u2019s sunshine was a welcome contrast to yesterday\u2019s rain. From Margaret Brown Gardens, the River Thames reflected the bright sky and the buildings of St Helen\u2019s Wharf like a mirror.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026021602.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nFor much of last year there were several juvenile swans along this stretch of river. Now we seem to be down to just two. Perhaps they are a pair.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026021601.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere is usually a drop to the water here, and the swans are seen from above. With the river still high, they are almost at path level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s sunshine was a welcome contrast to yesterday\u2019s rain. From Margaret Brown Gardens, the River Thames reflected the bright sky and the buildings of St Helen\u2019s Wharf like a mirror. For much of last year there were several juvenile swans along this stretch of river. Now we seem to be down to just two. Perhaps [&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-35030","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\/35030","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=35030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}