{"id":4484,"date":"2011-09-06T22:43:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T21:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4484"},"modified":"2011-09-06T22:43:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T21:43:30","slug":"crowds-cheer-in-david-walliams-at-abingdon-lock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4484","title":{"rendered":"Crowds cheer in David Walliams at Abingdon Lock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11090719a.jpg\" alt=\"David Walliams\" \/><br \/>\nWhen we arrived at Abingdon Lock a large crowd had already begun to gather to support TV personality, and charity-challenge-taker, David\u00a0Walliams\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0who is attempting to swim 140 miles of the River Thames over 8 days.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11090723a.jpg\" alt=\"David Walliams\" \/><br \/>\nOn this the second day of the challenge, David started at dawn to make up for 2 miles lost yesterday. The press boat came in about 20 minutes before David, and filmed some crowd scenes before it got dark.<\/p>\n<p>It was dark when David finally swam through to Abingdon Lock at 20:20. Alongside were, \u00a0canoes and another swimmer for moral support. He had made up the lost miles by doing 20 miles today.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11090724a.jpg\" alt=\"David Walliams\" \/><br \/>\nNot quite 20:20 vision but it is difficult to get pictures over a large crowd . Wrapped up from the cold, David Walliams starts off again from Abingdon to Goring tomorrow soon after 7 am.<\/p>\n<p>You can make donations to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportrelief.com\/donate\/walliams\">Sports Relief and follow his progress on this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we arrived at Abingdon Lock a large crowd had already begun to gather to support TV personality, and charity-challenge-taker, David\u00a0Walliams\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0who is attempting to swim 140 miles of the River Thames over 8 days. On this the second day of the challenge, David started at dawn to make up for 2 miles lost yesterday. The [&hellip;]<\/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-4484","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\/4484","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=4484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}