{"id":8996,"date":"2021-08-20T13:40:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T12:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=8996"},"modified":"2021-08-20T13:40:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T12:40:06","slug":"take-a-punt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2021\/08\/20\/take-a-punt\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a punt&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to see that Tom Fort&#8217;s book <em>Downstream<\/em> is now <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/downstream0000fort\">on Archive.org to borrow<\/a>. He follows the course of the Trent in a punt, but first investigates in some detail the river&#8217;s moorland source and non-navigable upper reaches. The scan is bad, even by Archive.org standards, but it&#8217;s readable. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/2021-08-20_132933-horz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/2021-08-20_132933-horz.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"365\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8997\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I gave a hardback copy to Stoke-on-Trent central reference library about a decade ago, but it seems it never made it to the shelves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to see that Tom Fort&#8217;s book Downstream is now on Archive.org to borrow. He follows the course of the Trent in a punt, but first investigates in some detail the river&#8217;s moorland source and non-navigable upper reaches. The scan is bad, even by Archive.org standards, but it&#8217;s readable. I gave a hardback copy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}