{"id":35069,"date":"2026-02-21T21:11:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T21:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35069"},"modified":"2026-02-21T21:11:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T21:11:36","slug":"the-leaning-pine-of-marcham-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35069","title":{"rendered":"The Marcham Road Leaning Pine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026022104.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThis mature pine leans a branch above the traffic of the A415.<\/p>\n<p>At first glance it appears precarious \u2014 as though the next named storm might bring it down. But a look back at Google Street View from June 2008 shows the tree had this shape nearly two decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>Pines often grow into wind-shaped forms, but in this case the outline may owe more to the gradual loss of other branches over the years. What remains is an ivy-clad trunk and a strong side-leaning branch.<\/p>\n<p>In Albert Park, among other leaning pines, it would not catch the eye. Here, however, it is quite a feature leaning above a busy road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This mature pine leans a branch above the traffic of the A415. At first glance it appears precarious \u2014 as though the next named storm might bring it down. But a look back at Google Street View from June 2008 shows the tree had this shape nearly two decades ago. Pines often grow into wind-shaped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35069","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=35069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}