{"id":1516,"date":"2017-05-06T21:17:05","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T21:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2017-05-06T21:27:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T21:27:48","slug":"dragon-boat-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/dragon-boat-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Boat Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend is a big event in the Robert&#8217;s Park calendar &#8211; Dragon Boat Racing. I am not a great one for crowds and only decided to see what it was like on my way home. I parked off Hird St near Jack Penningtons and walked along the river and then the canal towards Roberts Park.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Quite a crowd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/34362982221\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4164\/34362982221_64c17a2ed6_z.jpg\" alt=\"Quite a crowd\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And that was the sight to greet me across the other side of the river. One or three people.<\/p>\n<p>I had a wander around and took a few photos of one of the races.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Come on\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/33683344573\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4161\/33683344573_2df932c2fe_z.jpg\" alt=\"Come on\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a>This team are certainly putting some effort in<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"We are going to win\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/34362974121\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4178\/34362974121_921c6c1e8b_z.jpg\" alt=\"We are going to win\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a>They obviously want to win<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Got to beat these first\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/34493326675\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4160\/34493326675_a2a90f1ec9_z.jpg\" alt=\"Got to beat these first\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a>But as they passed me this team were in the lead<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Yes!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/33683338263\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4185\/33683338263_65c695a684_z.jpg\" alt=\"Yes!\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>They look co-ordinated and are not going to let anyone past if they can help it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend is a big event in the Robert&#8217;s Park calendar &#8211; Dragon Boat Racing. I am not a great one for crowds and only decided to see what it was like on my way home. I parked off Hird St near Jack Penningtons and walked along the river and then the canal towards Roberts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3kGoX-os","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}