{"id":1212,"date":"2013-10-24T04:16:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T04:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2013-10-24T04:58:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T04:58:57","slug":"waiting-out-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=1212","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Waiting out the Weather&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1211\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Howmore-Swirling-Water.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1211\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1211\" alt=\"Swirling Waters at Howmore\" src=\"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Howmore-Swirling-Water-300x180.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Howmore-Swirling-Water-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Howmore-Swirling-Water-280x168.jpg 280w, https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Howmore-Swirling-Water.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swirling Waters at Howmore<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>The Country Diary<\/strong> in <em>The Guardian<\/em> attracts descriptions of British scenes with the emphasis on the quietly dramatic, ever-changing scenes of rural life. <strong><a title=\"Christine Smith - The Country Diary in The Guardian\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2012\/mar\/08\/south-uist-troubled-seas-lapwings-cry\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a><\/strong>, in her piece published on 8 March 2012, Christine Smith considers the responses of lapwings and oystercatchers to the turbulent, troubled waters of the tidal flow on the beach at <strong>Howmore<\/strong>. She uses a phrase &#8211; &#8216;waiting out the weather&#8217; &#8211; to describe the response of the birds. It could be applied, on occasions, to the attitudes of some hostellers, keen to make tracks though aware of the discomforts awaiting them away from the hostel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Country Diary in The Guardian attracts descriptions of British scenes with the emphasis on the quietly dramatic, ever-changing scenes of rural life. Here, in her piece published on 8 March 2012, Christine Smith considers the responses of lapwings and oystercatchers to the turbulent, troubled waters of the tidal flow on the beach at Howmore. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=1212\">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-1212","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\/1212"}],"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=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}