{"id":4329,"date":"2017-06-04T20:36:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=4329"},"modified":"2017-06-16T17:11:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T16:11:29","slug":"putting-my-foot-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=4329","title":{"rendered":"Putting my foot in it"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4354\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4354\" src=\"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1150279-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"Deer in Glen Muick.\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1150279-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1150279-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1150279-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deer in Glen Muick.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Our\u00a0first full day in Ballater started with a beautiful ecumenical service at the Church of Scotland (brilliant talk to children on Holy Spirit) followed by a performance by the local pipe band afterwards. This was also the opening of a festival, at which Dot bought a necklace. There were showers all day, but also quite a bit of sun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After lunch we drove down to Loch Muick and walked to the boat shed, where we sheltered. While there I walked out on the stones as usual but overbalanced and put my foot in some water about 18 inches deep. Unfortunately Dot was too worried to get a picture, but I amused three very nice Germans who were standing there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On the way back to the car we encountered a herd of deer crossing the path &#8211; something similar happened once when the Murrays were with us. Later we had fish and chips: very nice but far too much as usual. I fell asleep afterwards, then we got the wood burner going. It&#8217;s warm now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our\u00a0first full day in Ballater started with a beautiful ecumenical service at the Church of Scotland (brilliant talk to children on Holy Spirit) followed by a performance by the local pipe band afterwards. This was also the opening of a festival, at which Dot bought a necklace. There were showers all day, but also quite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=4329\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Putting my foot in it<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4329"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4355,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329\/revisions\/4355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}