{"id":247,"date":"2011-10-23T09:14:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T09:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canalshop.co.uk\/canalshop\/?p=247"},"modified":"2011-10-23T09:14:26","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T09:14:26","slug":"queen-of-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canalshop.co.uk\/canalshop\/queen-of-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen of Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_248\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-248\" title=\"Queen of Waters book\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canalshop.co.uk\/canalshop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/bkqow.jpg\" alt=\"Queen of Waters book\" width=\"150\" height=\"129\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queen of Waters book<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>by Kirsten Elliott.<\/p>\n<p>The Kennet &amp; Avon Canal was the wonder of its age, a broad waterway built across southern England as a trade route between the country&#8217;s two biggest ports &#8211; London and Bristol. 30 years after it was completed, Brunel&#8217;s Great Western Railway opened, robbing it of much of its traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Two hundred years after the first cargoes sailed along it, and twenty years on from its grand reopening, this book pays tribute to the canal that refused to die.<\/p>\n<p>Soft back. 203 pages. 24cms x 20.7cms approx. Colour and black &amp; white photos throughout.<\/p>\n<p>Price \u00a320 and can be ordered <a title=\"Queen of Waters book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canalshop.co.uk\/acatalog\/bkwwhl.html#a2467\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kirsten Elliott. The Kennet &amp; Avon Canal was the wonder of its age, a broad waterway built across southern England as a trade route between the country&#8217;s two biggest ports &#8211; London and Bristol. 30 years after it was completed, Brunel&#8217;s Great Western Railway opened, robbing it of much of its traffic. Two hundred &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canalshop.co.uk\/canalshop\/queen-of-waters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Queen of Waters&#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":[20,58,6],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-waterways","tag-canal-books","tag-kennet-avon","tag-stock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canalshop.co.uk\/canalshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","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=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canalshop.co.uk\/canalshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/www.canalshop.co.uk\/canalshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canalshop.co.uk\/canalshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canalshop.co.uk\/canalshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canalshop.co.uk\/canalshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}