{"id":583,"date":"2017-02-09T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T00:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/?p=583"},"modified":"2017-02-03T15:35:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T15:35:23","slug":"no-187-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":"No 187*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 1836<\/p>\n<p>A race for a trifling sweepstake was got up among the T.B. it was run over Battersea fields the distance was about a mile with 7 leaps in it, the following fellows started<\/p>\n<p>Astley<br \/>\nForester<br \/>\nMerewether<br \/>\nMaule<br \/>\nWingfield<br \/>\nDudman<br \/>\nWhittaker<br \/>\nBentinck<\/p>\n<p>Astley won.  Whittaker being second and Merewether third.  <\/p>\n<p>A race was also got up this month between the following boats two pair of sculls in each boat.<\/p>\n<p>Howard Vialls<br \/>\nSomerton Vincent<br \/>\nAstley Tritton Junr<br \/>\nMerewether Forester<\/p>\n<p>This race in consequence of a dispute did not come off.<\/p>\n<p>Added by Somerton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 1836 A race for a trifling sweepstake was got up among the T.B. it was run over Battersea fields the distance was about a mile with 7 leaps in it, the following fellows started Astley Forester Merewether Maule Wingfield Dudman Whittaker Bentinck Astley won. Whittaker being second and Merewether third. A race was also&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[258,160,260],"tags":[259,213,42,264,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}