{"id":8416,"date":"2013-03-07T23:58:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T22:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8416"},"modified":"2013-03-07T23:58:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T22:58:20","slug":"abingdon-lock-will-not-be-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8416","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Lock Keeper to Retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abingdon Lock\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13030703.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nI was looking back through the archives for a picture of the weir\/lock keeper and found this one of him working hard at the weir in July 2007 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/2007\/07\/2007-2007.html\">aftermath of a huge deluge<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-TEiihOT_JLU\/UTkW1VgxCMI\/AAAAAAAAM-I\/KLQAnd39sOU\/s1600\/13030701.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-TEiihOT_JLU\/UTkW1VgxCMI\/AAAAAAAAM-I\/KLQAnd39sOU\/s320\/13030701.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHe is to retire this month. The name tag was still there last weekend but will soon be gone.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abingdon Lock\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13030702.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe refurbishment of Abingdon Lock is nearly complete for whoever takes over next, if there is to be a live in lock keeper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking back through the archives for a picture of the weir\/lock keeper and found this one of him working hard at the weir in July 2007 in the aftermath of a huge deluge. He is to retire this month. The name tag was still there last weekend but will soon be gone. 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":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8416","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\/8416","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=8416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}