{"id":1512,"date":"2013-11-30T07:09:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T07:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2013-11-30T07:21:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T07:21:20","slug":"rich-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=1512","title":{"rendered":"Rich &#038; Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1513\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Berneray-Machair-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1513\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1513\" alt=\"The Machair on Berneray\" src=\"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Berneray-Machair-02-300x178.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Berneray-Machair-02-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Berneray-Machair-02-1024x609.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Berneray-Machair-02-280x166.jpg 280w, https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Berneray-Machair-02.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Machair on Berneray<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Rob Sutton on Berneray\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk\/forums\/wild-places-and-geography\/57863-berneray-machair-magic.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Sutton<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>writes\u00a0about <strong>Berneray<\/strong>:\u00a0&#8216;I usually go up either in early May or Late August which seem to be better times of the year for birds, but it does mean I miss the magic of the machair. These poor sandy soils are the only bits of the islands that can easily be cultivated and have been for hundreds of years but on a strict rotation so soils have a chance to recover their fertility. Some bits, never ploughed, are used as rough grazing. The consequence of poor soil and rotational use means that they have a magnificent richness of wild flowers.&#8217; [from <a title=\"Wild About Britain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk\/forums\/wild-places-and-geography\/57863-berneray-machair-magic.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Wild About Britain<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Sutton\u00a0writes\u00a0about Berneray:\u00a0&#8216;I usually go up either in early May or Late August which seem to be better times of the year for birds, but it does mean I miss the magic of the machair. These poor sandy soils are the only bits of the islands that can easily be cultivated and have been for <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=1512\">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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explore-beyond-berneray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512"}],"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=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}