{"id":954,"date":"2007-11-01T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T09:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2007\/11\/01\/there-must-be-more-to-life\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T09:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T09:23:00","slug":"there-must-be-more-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=954","title":{"rendered":"There must be More to Life&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07110103.jpg\" \/><br \/>Approaching Abingdon Lock from Oxford you see these old hulks.  I&#8217;m not sure they get used that much &#8211; given one has trees growing inside.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07110101.jpg\" \/><br \/>The black and white markers guide boats towards the Lock rather than the weir &#8211; always a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>The locks on our patch of the Thames all seem to have a keepers cottage, and an office. The lock keeper&#8217;s  most important duty is tending the weir, but we all know him as the Lock Keeper.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07110110.jpg\" \/><br \/>For more information on the Thames try the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitthames.co.uk\/\">Visit Thames<\/a> website. It has a piece on Roger Steere, who has lived in the Lock House since 1984. <em>Roger and his wife, Gillian, agree that running this lock has been &#8216;extremely rewarding.&#8217; A former programmer, Roger says, &#8216;When I was in computers, I thought ,&#8221;there must be more to life than this&#8221; so I became a lock keeper&#8217;.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approaching Abingdon Lock from Oxford you see these old hulks. I&#8217;m not sure they get used that much &#8211; given one has trees growing inside.The black and white markers guide boats towards the Lock rather than the weir &#8211; always a good idea. The locks on our patch of the Thames all seem to have [&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-954","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\/954","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=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}