{"id":1194,"date":"2019-09-17T13:55:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T13:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2019-09-17T14:02:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T14:02:04","slug":"breakwater-blitz-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/?p=1194","title":{"rendered":"Breakwater Blitz on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rachel writes:<\/strong> We have no boats on Saturday, as both will be away to the Castle to Crane event.\u00a0So there will be <strong>no social rowing<\/strong>, but do come and <b>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/queensferryrowingclub\/albums\/72157679434058398\">Take Five for the Forth<\/a>, <\/b>as part of<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanconservancy.org\/trash-free-seas\/international-coastal-cleanup\/\">International Coastal Cleanup Day<\/a><\/strong><b>.<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">You can help in many ways, even you don\u2019t want to clamber on the rocks removing plastics etc.\u00a0 There are plenty of nurdles (see below) to be removed, just by the grassy bank, plus collecting bags and so on.\u00a0 If planning to join us, can you bring two or three strong black bags?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">We are hoping for bacon rolls from 10am to start us off. The weather is looking very favourable.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48749446217_aeb93775df_b.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For those wondering, nurdles are tiny plastic pellets that have accumulated in a corner of the marina in their thousands. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nurdlehunt.org.uk\">Read about them here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/47589039232_890df88554_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">QRC volunteers collecting nurdles earlier this year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel writes: We have no boats on Saturday, as both will be away to the Castle to Crane event.\u00a0So there will be no social rowing, but do come and \u00a0Take Five for the Forth, as part of International Coastal Cleanup Day. You can help in many ways, even you don\u2019t want to clamber on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/?p=1194\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Breakwater Blitz on Saturday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}