{"id":1402,"date":"2016-05-12T16:57:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T16:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2016-05-12T17:08:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T17:08:21","slug":"volunteers-restore-dundas-aqueduct-toll-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/volunteers-restore-dundas-aqueduct-toll-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers restore Dundas Aqueduct toll house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towpathtalk.co.uk\/volunteers-restore-dundas-aqueduct-toll-house\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CRT-Dundas-Toll-house-restored-3.jpg?w=800\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0 THE 19th-century toll house at Dundas Aqueduct on the Kennet &amp; Avon Canal has been transformed into a \u2018welcome station\u2019 for people visiting the historic structure. Working with the Canal &amp;amp\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towpathtalk.co.uk\/volunteers-restore-dundas-aqueduct-toll-house\/\">Volunteers restore Dundas Aqueduct toll house<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is great news, it was obviously not restored when we visited in 2011. Of course we sort of blasted through the aqueduct, banging into every conceivable abutment. The approach and exit to the aqueduct are at opposing right angles, so it was something of a challenge for first-time boaters.<\/p>\n<p>The featured picture here is not my own, but from wikimedia. We approached on an overcast, rainy day without a single person walking on the towpath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 THE 19th-century toll house at Dundas Aqueduct on the Kennet &amp; Avon Canal has been transformed into a \u2018welcome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1405,"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":"Volunteers restore Dundas Aqueduct toll house","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/dundas-aqueduct.jpg?fit=1137%2C1000","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p74kO9-mC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1406,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/1406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}