{"id":8641,"date":"2013-04-14T23:20:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T22:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8641"},"modified":"2013-04-14T23:20:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T22:20:01","slug":"early-season-rowing-event-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8641","title":{"rendered":"Report on the big rowing event in Abingdon today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13041402.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Spring Head\" \/><br \/>\nThere were nearly 400 boats taking part throughout the day in this year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190408013308\/https:\/\/head.abingdonrc.org.uk\/\">Abingdon Spring Head of the River<\/a>  (or time trial). This is an early season event rowed upstream over 2000 M from Culham to Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13041411.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Spring Head\" \/><br \/>\nBoats came from all over England and Wales, but the vast majority came from places on the River Thames &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13041407.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Spring Head\" \/><br \/>\nOxford, Reading, Maidenhead, Wallingford, Henley, Marlow, Putney &#8230; even Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13041406.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Spring Head\" \/><br \/>\nThe event is organised by Abingdon Rowing Club and so most of the Abingdon rowers are marshalling in one way or another.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13041422.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Spring Head\" \/><br \/>\nUnlike the dragon boat racing, which will be on September 8th, the rowing crews dress in club kits, and have to carry their own boats. <\/p>\n<p>There is some entertainment beyond the rowing: The Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers were there for a second year. There was also a beer tent to keep them happy between dances. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were nearly 400 boats taking part throughout the day in this year&#8217;s Abingdon Spring Head of the River (or time trial). This is an early season event rowed upstream over 2000 M from Culham to Abingdon. Boats came from all over England and Wales, but the vast majority came from places on the River [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8641","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=8641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}