{"id":5447,"date":"2011-12-27T22:28:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T22:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5447"},"modified":"2011-12-27T22:28:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T22:28:03","slug":"extending-the-christmas-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5447","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Holidays extended &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/20111820.jpg\" alt=\"Swans Holiday\" \/><br \/>\nOn a walk to Culham and back I took a picture of a swan and then an almost grown cygnet at the old Culham bridge where Swift Ditch rejoins the Thames.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/20111814.jpg\" alt=\"Swans Holiday\" \/><br \/>\nThey paddled upstream at a steady pace, met up with a larger group of swans, and then paddled past.<\/p>\n<p>Some people are preparing to go back to work after the Christmas break. Other people, working on essential \/ caring services, have never stopped.<\/p>\n<p>The company I work for asks employees to save three of their annual  holidays to use at this time of year &#8211; so that the company can close down for the week between the Christmas and New Year bank holidays.\u00a0 So I am now into extended Christmas Holiday.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11121103.jpg\" alt=\"Swans Holiday\" \/><br \/>\nAs for swans, every day has its routine. They need to check out their territory, find food, and ward off any dangers, etc&#8230;\u00a0 That routine cannot be called either work or leisure. Swans don&#8217;t get holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a walk to Culham and back I took a picture of a swan and then an almost grown cygnet at the old Culham bridge where Swift Ditch rejoins the Thames. They paddled upstream at a steady pace, met up with a larger group of swans, and then paddled past. Some people are preparing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,138,173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-river-thames","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447","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=5447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}