{"id":2239,"date":"2017-12-21T17:39:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T17:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2017-12-21T17:39:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T17:39:15","slug":"a-little-down-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/a-little-down-time\/","title":{"rendered":"A little down time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dear Narrowboating for Beginners<\/em> readers,<\/p>\n

I thought I\u2019d take an opportunity to wish one and all a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year. I\u2019m also taking a little down time while I recover from the surgery I underwent Dec. 14. I\u2019m in great shape, considering I had a mastectomy and breast reconstruction because of a cancer diagnosis in October. It came out of the blue and has interrupted my plans to promote my latest book, Cycling the Canals of Britain<\/em>. Of course I wanted the book to be the hit of the holidays, but life happens.<\/p>\n

I hope to get back to updating Narrowboating for Beginners<\/em> for 2018 after the first of the year. Although most of the book remains relevant, I plan to update it with more examples of different sorts of locks and bridges, techniques for dealing with a canal that\u2019s gone dry, more safety advice and updates on the general state of the waterways.<\/p>\n

Until then, however, I plan to take it easy and start the planning for our 2018 cruise of the Mon & Brec.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Petkus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Narrowboating for Beginners readers, I thought I\u2019d take an opportunity to wish one and all a Merry Christmas, Happy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":"A little down time","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-2239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p74kO9-A7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239","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=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions\/2241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}