{"id":241,"date":"2011-10-04T12:47:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T12:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canalshop.co.uk\/canalshop\/?p=241"},"modified":"2011-10-06T08:10:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T08:10:00","slug":"the-glamorganshire-aberdare-canals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canalshop.co.uk\/canalshop\/the-glamorganshire-aberdare-canals\/","title":{"rendered":"The Glamorganshire &#038; Aberdare Canals"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_242\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-242\" style=\"width: 104px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-242\" title=\"The Glamorganshire &amp; Aberdare Canals\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canalshop.co.uk\/canalshop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/bkgaac.jpg\" alt=\"The Glamorganshire &amp; Aberdare Canals\" width=\"104\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Glamorganshire &amp; Aberdare Canals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>by Ivor Jones.<br \/>\nThe Glamorganshire Canal ran 25 miles from Merthyr Tydfil to Cardiff, while the shorter Aberdare Canal ran from Aberdare to Abercynon where it joined the former. Now much buried by the A470 trunk road, these lost canals nonetheless boast a proud history.<br \/>\nThey enabled the area to become rich and Cardiff to prosper as they connected Glamorganshire iron works and collieries with towns and ports, as well as allowing the export of materials such as limestone, tinplate and bricks.<\/p>\n<p>Price \u00a314.99p and can be ordered <a title=\"The Glamorganshire &amp; Aberdare Canals\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canalshop.co.uk\/acatalog\/bkwwcg.html#a2468\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ivor Jones. The Glamorganshire Canal ran 25 miles from Merthyr Tydfil to Cardiff, while the shorter Aberdare Canal ran from Aberdare to Abercynon where it joined the former. Now much buried by the A470 trunk road, these lost canals nonetheless boast a proud history. They enabled the area to become rich and Cardiff to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canalshop.co.uk\/canalshop\/the-glamorganshire-aberdare-canals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Glamorganshire &#038; Aberdare Canals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,38],"tags":[57,20,56,6],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-waterways","tag-aberdare-canal","tag-canal-books","tag-glamorganshire-canal","tag-stock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canalshop.co.uk\/canalshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canalshop.co.uk\/canalshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canalshop.co.uk\/canalshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canalshop.co.uk\/canalshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canalshop.co.uk\/canalshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.canalshop.co.uk\/canalshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/www.canalshop.co.uk\/canalshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canalshop.co.uk\/canalshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canalshop.co.uk\/canalshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canalshop.co.uk\/canalshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}