{"id":362,"date":"2023-10-25T11:01:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T00:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graftonrowing.asn.au\/web3\/?p=362"},"modified":"2023-10-25T11:01:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T00:01:06","slug":"rowing-road-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graftonrowing.asn.au\/web3\/2023\/10\/25\/rowing-road-rage\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowing &#8220;Road Rage&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rowing must have been a wild sport back in the day if this newspaper report on a race from 1891 is anything to go by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>EXCITEMENT IN WAGER BOAT RACE<\/strong><br>R. J. Brown and C. Dutch engaged in<br>a wager boat race on the Parramatta<br>River in March &#8217;91. A collision took<br>place near Uhr&#8217;s Point and Brown fell<br>overboard, but was fortunately on the<br>rock upon which the beacon was placed.<br>Dutch jumped into the river and, wading<br>over to Brown, struck him on the nose.<br>Brown quickly got into the boat and<br>resumed the race, but had not gone a<br>great distance before his boat sank and<br>Dutch, who was much slower to get<br>into his boat, pulled leisurely along and<br>won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Daily Examiner, Friday October 19, 1934 (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/193151723\" target=\"_blank\">Trove<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps it was a case of slow and steady wins the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rowing must have been a wild sport back in the day if this newspaper report on a race from 1891 is anything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graftonrowing.asn.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graftonrowing.asn.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graftonrowing.asn.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graftonrowing.asn.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graftonrowing.asn.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.graftonrowing.asn.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/www.graftonrowing.asn.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graftonrowing.asn.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graftonrowing.asn.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graftonrowing.asn.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}