{"id":422,"date":"2012-04-12T17:42:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T17:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/?p=422"},"modified":"2014-11-22T15:20:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T15:20:27","slug":"a-river-great-ouse-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/2012\/04\/a-river-great-ouse-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"A River Great Ouse joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8216;<strong>Fenland River &#8211; The Story of the Great Ouse and its Tributaries<\/strong>&#8216; by Rodney Tibbs, as related by W.E Doran, Chief Engineer of the Great Ouse River Board in the foreword:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After a very pleasant dinner some years ago in one of the Cambridge Colleges a certain Don turned to me and said &#8220;Why is the Ouse like a flea?&#8221;. \u00a0I was unable to to think of any reasonable answer to this conundrun. \u00a0&#8220;Ha!&#8221; he said, &#8220;because it goes into Beds. and Hunts. and ends up in the Wash!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m planning to walk the Great Ouse, the UK&#8217;s 4th longest river, later in the year, I&#8217;ve hiked a third of it already (King&#8217;s Lynn to Ely), there are some fine opportunities along the way for a spot of wild camping.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-423\" style=\"width: 614px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:DSCN1566-goba-mooring-after-brownshill-staunch_1200x900.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-423 \" title=\"River Great Ouse near Over\" src=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSCN1566-goba-mooring-after-brownshill-staunch_1200x900-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"River Great Ouse near Over\" width=\"614\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSCN1566-goba-mooring-after-brownshill-staunch_1200x900-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSCN1566-goba-mooring-after-brownshill-staunch_1200x900-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSCN1566-goba-mooring-after-brownshill-staunch_1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">River Great Ouse near Over (photo by William M. Connolley)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8216;Fenland River &#8211; The Story of the Great Ouse and its Tributaries&#8216; by Rodney Tibbs, as related by W.E&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[44,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}