{"id":1525,"date":"2020-04-06T21:00:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T21:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2020-04-06T21:14:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T21:14:10","slug":"virtual-rowaround-scotland-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/?p=1525","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Rowaround Scotland 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"UMcBGIMeYN\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rowaround.scot\/virtual-rowaround-scotland\/\">Virtual RowAround Scotland<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#8220;Virtual RowAround Scotland&#8221; &#8212; RowAround Scotland 2020\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rowaround.scot\/virtual-rowaround-scotland\/embed\/#?secret=UMcBGIMeYN\" data-secret=\"UMcBGIMeYN\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As you will know, Covid-19 has put paid to plans for a relay row around the coast of Scotland to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Scottish Coastal Rowing. However, the organisers are not downhearted, and a digital RowAround is under way.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow progress on the website linked above &#8211; there&#8217;s a map that shows the sections completed, and clicking on them takes you to a collection of words and photos celebrating that section.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rowaround.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bowness-Belle_1200.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first section, Annan to Bowness, includes a beautiful story about a mermaid read by the RowAround storyteller, Jan Bee Brown. There&#8217;s also a history of the Bell Raid, and some lovely notes from the Annan ladies, including this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first time I tried rowing was in the \u2018Pride of Annan\u2019 on Castle Loch at Lochmaben. I was in the bow doing quite well, following the stroke, listening to the cox when a swan came into land on the water on the port side; I was transfixed. I completely lost timing and \u2018caught a crab\u2019 ending up like a sheep on its back with my legs in the air. Thankfully nobody had a camera so my embarrassment was not recorded for posterity. \u2014 Christine M.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual RowAround Scotland As you will know, Covid-19 has put paid to plans for a relay row around the coast of Scotland to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Scottish Coastal Rowing. However, the organisers are not downhearted, and a digital RowAround is under way. You can follow progress on the website linked above &#8211; there&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/?p=1525\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Virtual Rowaround Scotland 2020&#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-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","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=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}