{"id":9984,"date":"2022-09-01T07:24:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T06:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=9984"},"modified":"2022-09-01T07:24:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T06:24:44","slug":"inter-ccu-raft-race-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/inter-ccu-raft-race-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter-CCU Raft Race: 1979"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Inter-CCU Raft Race across the Serpentine in 1979 is yet another part of college history that&#8217;s very difficult to find anything about. I can certainly find several references to the event in Felix, but nothing about why it started. What I can tell you is that this 1979 race is the first I found mentioned, so it could have been the first race to happen and the reason why STOIC recorded it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2022\/06\/RCS-win-Raft-Race-1979.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" class=\"alignright wp-image-10061\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2022\/06\/RCS-win-Raft-Race-1979-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Of the listings in FELIX, there are only mentions of the fact that it&#8217;s happening or that it had already happened and which CCU won it (photo on right). Just one tiny extra piece I found was this &#8216;thanks&#8217; from the Union President who said after the 1979 race: &#8220;<em>Thanks to the Underwater Club for giving up their Sunday Lie-In to ensure the safety of the Raft Race<\/em>&#8220;. And there was one photo in Felix announcing that RCS had won the race.<\/p>\n<p>So sit back and enjoy this brief coverage of what may have been the very first Raft Race across the Serpentine in London&#8217;s Hyde Park. It started in Prince&#8217;s Garden and then up the roads to Hyde Park.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Inter CCU Raft Race: 1979\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eJ7l9317OhY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw September 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inter-CCU Raft Race is an event that happened many years ago. Not much is known about it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3921,18461,295168,82],"tags":[3929,97403,279898,279896,212,975,89],"class_list":["post-9984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-update","category-college-history","category-student-events","category-student-life","tag-city-and-guilds","tag-rag","tag-rcs","tag-rsm","tag-stoic","tag-student-union","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9984"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10165,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9984\/revisions\/10165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}