{"id":9626,"date":"2013-09-05T23:20:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T22:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9626"},"modified":"2013-09-05T23:20:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T22:20:42","slug":"celebrating-the-iconic-river-thames-with-a-relay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9626","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating The Iconic River Thames with a relay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bottle of water taken at the source of the River Thames in Gloucestershire is being carried by a relay of walkers, swimmers, kayakers, rowers, and sailors to the city of London then out to sea. The relay began on September 1st and will finish on September 15th.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13090504.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdons Iconic River\" \/><br \/>\nToday, the bottle was brought to Abingdon by Arwyn, a 1960\u2019s electric powered sailing boat, on behalf of the Electric Boat Association, and the Abbey Sailing Club &#8211; which celebrates 80 years in 2013.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13090507.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdons Iconic River\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon lock keeper is on holiday this week, and so the relief lock keeper will keep the bottle overnight and entrust it to the rowers tomorrow. Both Abingdon Rowing Club and the City of Oxford Rowing Club will speed the bottle as far as Benson Lock.<\/p>\n<p>This is part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/thamesfestival.org\/\">Thames Festival<\/a>, celebrating the iconic River Thames.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bottle of water taken at the source of the River Thames in Gloucestershire is being carried by a relay of walkers, swimmers, kayakers, rowers, and sailors to the city of London then out to sea. The relay began on September 1st and will finish on September 15th. Today, the bottle was brought to Abingdon [&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-9626","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\/9626","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=9626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}