{"id":156868,"date":"2018-07-18T16:56:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T16:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/boater-accidentally-drains-kennet-and-avon-canal\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T16:56:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T16:56:44","slug":"boater-accidentally-drains-kennet-and-avon-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/boater-accidentally-drains-kennet-and-avon-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"Boater accidentally drains Kennet and Avon Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kennet and Avon Canal, Wiltshire\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/A56B\/production\/_102574324_k-a_canal.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  David Maguire<figcaption>Image caption                                      A stretch of the Kennet and Avon Canal after it was accidentally drained                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A boater accidentally drained a stretch of the Kennet and Avon Canal after leaving all the lock gates open.<\/p>\n<p>A section of the waterway was left with hardly any water on Tuesday near the Barge Inn in Seend, Wiltshire. <\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Canal and River Trust confirmed what happened was not malicious but that the boater was &quot;rushing and left the paddles up&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The lock paddles &quot;work like a plug on a bath in allowing water in and out of the locks,&quot; he explained.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the trust had since restored the water levels.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Google<figcaption>Image caption                                      The Kennet and Avon Canal near Seend, as it normally looks                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Kennet and Avon Canal is an 87-mile (140km) waterway linking the River Thames at Reading to the River Avon in Bath.<\/p>\n<p>It was originally opened in 1810, but gradually fell into decline after the Great Western Railway was built.<\/p>\n<p>The waterway was completely restored by volunteers and officially reopened by the Queen on 8 August 1990.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright David MaguireImage caption A stretch of the Kennet and Avon Canal after it was accidentally drained A boater accidentally drained a stretch of the Kennet and Avon Canal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}