{"id":4457,"date":"2011-09-02T13:14:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T12:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4457"},"modified":"2011-09-02T13:14:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T12:14:46","slug":"swimming-the-channel-for-footsteps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4457","title":{"rendered":"Swimming the channel for Footsteps"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Swimming<\/p>\n

Gorgeous day. Too good to be in doors. I see most of the scaffolding remains. It looks as if just the lift quarter is being removed, so my announcement two days ago was a little premature.<\/p>\n

I caught this chap walking down the precinct today in a wet suit. He will be swimming the channel next Thursday for the charity Footsteps, who have worked miracles with his second son – born with severe cerebral palsy. The website is www.swiminasuit.com<\/a> .<\/p>\n

Tomorrow I will be having my last weekly swim in the outdoor pool of the season.\u00a0 It closes after Sunday.\u00a0 Most of the time the water has been warm despite the cool summer.\u00a0 Only twice did it feel cold in the water.\u00a0 Often there have just been the three lifeguards watching just me, or a small group, so despite free swimming for under 16s and a much better service I don’t think they did that well. It is so weather dependent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gorgeous day. Too good to be in doors. I see most of the scaffolding remains. It looks as if just the lift quarter is being removed, so my announcement two days ago was a little premature. I caught this chap walking down the precinct today in a wet suit. He will be swimming the channel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457","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=4457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}