{"id":1484,"date":"2013-11-26T07:32:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T07:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2013-11-26T07:32:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T07:32:29","slug":"go-off-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=1484","title":{"rendered":"Go Off-Grid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1483\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Telephone-Box-Rhen-Road.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1483\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1483\" alt=\"Telephone on the Rhenigidale Road\" src=\"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Telephone-Box-Rhen-Road.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Telephone on the Rhenigidale Road<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Some 18 months ago a journalist wrote a piece for <a title=\"The Guardian on Going off Grid\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/travel\/2012\/aug\/16\/holidays-without-wifi-mobile-reception-tv\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Guardian<\/strong><\/em><\/a> about settlements without wi-fi, mobile or television connections. Among the places he located was <strong>Rhenigidale<\/strong>. The telephone was a long time coming, but once it arrived there was a difference. It was via a radio link to Skye rather than by telephone lines to the exchange in Tarbert. To what extent the hostel and its surrounding buildings are cut off now is a question to be asked. Are they? Is it possible to &#8216;Go Off-Grid&#8217; there? The phone box pictured here is a marker on the route from the junction on the Stornoway &#8211; Tarbert road to the hostel. It is just beyond the spot where the road divides &#8211; one way onto Maaruig; the other in the direction to Rhenigidale. I have known people to shelter, to rest, to fumble for coins in the slot there, but have never encountered anyone on the phone in this remote section of BT&#8217;s Outreach service..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 18 months ago a journalist wrote a piece for The Guardian about settlements without wi-fi, mobile or television connections. Among the places he located was Rhenigidale. The telephone was a long time coming, but once it arrived there was a difference. It was via a radio link to Skye rather than by telephone lines <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=1484\">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-1484","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\/1484"}],"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=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1490,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/1490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}