{"id":770,"date":"2008-04-20T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2008\/04\/20\/abingdon-spring-head-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-04-20T11:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-20T11:50:00","slug":"abingdon-spring-head-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Spring Head 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Abingdon Head of the River involves crews starting at intervals and racing against the clock. The winning crew receives the title of &#8220;Head of the River&#8221;.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08042115.jpg\" \/><br \/>The race is over a 2KM course starting near Culham. When they go past the Abingdon Rowing Club &#8211; shown here &#8211; competitors are on the finishing straight.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08042114.jpg\" \/><br \/>It looked hard going.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08042105.jpg\" \/><br \/>But having completed the course, the pain seems soon forgotten.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08042101.jpg\" \/><br \/>After the race there followed a more leisurely row under Abingdon Bridge (Burford Bridge).<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08042109.jpg\" \/><br \/>Crews disembark at Rye Farm Meadow.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08042102.jpg\" \/><br \/>Most people came by car, and so half the meadow serves as a car park, and the other half as a boat assembly \/ dis-assembly line.<\/p>\n<p>The event, hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abingdonrc.org.uk\/\">Abingdon Rowing Club<\/a>, had its biggest ever turn out this year (I believe).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abingdon Head of the River involves crews starting at intervals and racing against the clock. The winning crew receives the title of &#8220;Head of the River&#8221;.The race is over a 2KM course starting near Culham. When they go past the Abingdon Rowing Club &#8211; shown here &#8211; competitors are on the finishing straight.It looked [&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-770","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\/770","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=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}