{"id":1108,"date":"2013-10-07T05:43:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T05:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2013-10-07T05:44:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T05:44:23","slug":"st-columba-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=1108","title":{"rendered":"St Columba Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1107\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/St-Columba-Trail-Howmore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1107\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1107\" alt=\"St Columba Trail, Howmore\" src=\"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/St-Columba-Trail-Howmore-300x218.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/St-Columba-Trail-Howmore-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/St-Columba-Trail-Howmore-280x204.jpg 280w, https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/St-Columba-Trail-Howmore.jpg 899w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St Columba Trail &#8211; Howmore<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Read the Howmore entry for the<a title=\"The St Columba Trail - Howmore\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colmcille.org\/eilean-siar\/9-10\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> St Columba Trail<\/strong><\/a> and you realise that the village was something of a religious centre with a long and distinguished history.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in 1703, <strong>Martin Martin<\/strong> observed:\u00a0<em>The Natives speak the Irish tongue (Gaelic) more perfectly here than in most of the other Islands; partly because of the remoteness, and the small number of them that speak English, and partly because some of \u2018em are Scholars and vers\u2019d in the Irish language.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the Howmore entry for the St Columba Trail and you realise that the village was something of a religious centre with a long and distinguished history. Writing in 1703, Martin Martin observed:\u00a0The Natives speak the Irish tongue (Gaelic) more perfectly here than in most of the other Islands; partly because of the remoteness, and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=1108\">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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explore-howmore-south-uist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108"}],"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=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}