{"id":268,"date":"2013-02-16T20:33:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T20:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newarkheritagebarge.com\/?p=268"},"modified":"2013-02-16T20:33:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T20:33:33","slug":"happy-birthday-bill-middy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newarkheritagebarge.com\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Bill Middy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long standing friend Bill Middleton and one of the last remaining regular barge skippers to run to Newark is 91 today. As he is staying with a relative in Knottingley I had a run up there to have a yarn and a pint with him. I collected member and also a former tanker skipper Frank Major and we called at the Waterways Museum at Goole, then went to the former Harkers shipyard and then on to see Bill.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newarkheritagebarge.com\/?attachment_id=269\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-269\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-269\" alt=\"100_3009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newarkheritagebarge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/100_3009-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.newarkheritagebarge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/100_3009-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.newarkheritagebarge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/100_3009-1024x767.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.newarkheritagebarge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/100_3009-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 Left to right, Frank Major, Les and Bill&#8211;birthday treat sausage and mash and a lager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long standing friend Bill Middleton and one of the last remaining regular barge skippers to run to Newark is 91 today. As he is staying with a relative in Knottingley I had a run up there to have a yarn &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newarkheritagebarge.com\/?p=268\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newarkheritagebarge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newarkheritagebarge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newarkheritagebarge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newarkheritagebarge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newarkheritagebarge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.newarkheritagebarge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"http:\/\/www.newarkheritagebarge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newarkheritagebarge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newarkheritagebarge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newarkheritagebarge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}