{"id":745,"date":"2008-05-11T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2008\/05\/11\/dragon-boats-by-vesper-rotary\/"},"modified":"2008-05-11T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T15:00:00","slug":"dragon-boats-by-vesper-rotary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=745","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Boats by Vesper Rotary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08050910.jpg\" \/><br \/>The boats were pushed into the water this morning.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08050912.jpg\" \/><br \/>The Abingdon Vesper Rotary Club programme was on sale on the way in. All proceeds to charity and they made a lot of money.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08050906.jpg\" \/><br \/>The crowds came in great numbers on a glorious day.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08050907.jpg\" \/><br \/>The starter lined up the boats for the heats.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08050903.jpg\" \/><br \/>There was some friendly banter between opposing teams.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08050905.jpg\" \/><br \/>Then they were off! For the first time this year the race was through the heart of Abingdon.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08050902.jpg\" \/><br \/>Booming<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08050908.jpg\" \/><br \/>And shouting.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08050911.jpg\" \/><br \/>Between races there was a fun fair, stalls, and even the chance to dry off doing some dance steps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The boats were pushed into the water this morning.The Abingdon Vesper Rotary Club programme was on sale on the way in. All proceeds to charity and they made a lot of money.The crowds came in great numbers on a glorious day.The starter lined up the boats for the heats.There was some friendly banter between opposing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","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=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}