{"id":1079,"date":"2013-10-04T06:02:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T06:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2013-10-04T06:07:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T06:07:49","slug":"follow-the-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=1079","title":{"rendered":"Follow The Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1078\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Rhenigidale-Postmans-Path.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1078\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1078\" alt=\"The Postman's Path \" src=\"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Rhenigidale-Postmans-Path-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Rhenigidale-Postmans-Path-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Rhenigidale-Postmans-Path-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Rhenigidale-Postmans-Path-280x210.jpg 280w, https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Rhenigidale-Postmans-Path.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Postman&#8217;s Path &#8211; with Loch Trollamarig and The Pairc beyond<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The summit has been reached after the steady climb from Urgha on the Tarbert to Scalpay road. Now the Postman&#8217;s Path begins its descent towards <strong>Rhenigidale<\/strong>. Mark Rowe made the journey, wrote about it for <a title=\"The Postman's Path\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/uk\/walk-of-the-month-the-outer-hebrides--follow-harriss-route-to-the-letter-8772573.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Independent<\/strong><\/em> <\/a>and his account appeared in the newspaper on Saturday 17 August 2013. It invites others to follow in his steps and many will, secure in the knowledge that there is a hostel at the end of the trek and a warden who endeavours to see that no one is ever turned away.It&#8217;s now 50 years since the hostel was opened, following the persistent and persuasive efforts of Herbert Gatliff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The summit has been reached after the steady climb from Urgha on the Tarbert to Scalpay road. Now the Postman&#8217;s Path begins its descent towards Rhenigidale. Mark Rowe made the journey, wrote about it for The Independent and his account appeared in the newspaper on Saturday 17 August 2013. It invites others to follow in <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=1079\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explore-rhenigidale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}