{"id":6279,"date":"2012-04-04T00:17:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T23:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6279"},"modified":"2012-04-04T00:17:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T23:17:41","slug":"boats-moored-on-the-thames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6279","title":{"rendered":"Boats moored on the Thames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12040301.jpg\" alt=\"Boats moored on the Thames\" \/><br \/>\nJohn sent me some pictures of boats moored on the Thames by Abingdon. He says &#8220;<em>Seen tied up today. Nobody at home but I wonder does anyone know the\u00a0stories of these boats, especially the Vrouwe Johanna of Amsterdam,\u00a0dated, I think, 1899!<\/em>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12040302.jpg\" alt=\"Boats moored on the Thames\" \/><br \/>\nHe also sent pictures of Daisy D and two other similar traditional looking narrow boats &#8211; probably far more modern. They look compact on the outside for wending their way down narrow inland waterways and under low bridges but still afford plenty of living space inside.<\/p>\n<p>Any interesting facts for John? Could Vrouwe Johanna cross the English Channel? \u00a0What are the advantages of a Dutch Barge (if it is such) v a Narrow Boat? And why do people want to live in boats anyway?<\/p>\n<p>With Thanks to John for the pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John sent me some pictures of boats moored on the Thames by Abingdon. He says &#8220;Seen tied up today. Nobody at home but I wonder does anyone know the\u00a0stories of these boats, especially the Vrouwe Johanna of Amsterdam,\u00a0dated, I think, 1899!&#8221; He also sent pictures of Daisy D and two other similar traditional looking narrow [&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-6279","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\/6279","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=6279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}