{"id":1694,"date":"2013-12-26T06:44:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T06:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2013-12-26T06:44:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T06:44:06","slug":"getting-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=1694","title":{"rendered":"Getting Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1693\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Eriskay-Causeway.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1693\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1693\" alt=\"Eriskay Ponies and Causeway\" src=\"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Eriskay-Causeway-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Eriskay-Causeway-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Eriskay-Causeway-280x186.jpg 280w, https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Eriskay-Causeway.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eriskay Ponies and Causeway<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For visitors to the <strong>Howmore<\/strong> hostel, during its first 36 years, getting to <strong>Eriskay<\/strong> meant an excursion south by road <em>and<\/em> ferry, involving a timetable and the planning of a return trip. Then in 2001, all changed. No longer was Eric&#8217;s Island, from its Norse name, a place of destination; it became a part of transition, of getting away. The largest civil engineering project ever seen in the Outer Hebrides, the Eriskay Causeway, was completed and CalMac started a 40-minute crossing to Ardmore on Barra from Ceann a Gharaidh, a southern part of the island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For visitors to the Howmore hostel, during its first 36 years, getting to Eriskay meant an excursion south by road and ferry, involving a timetable and the planning of a return trip. Then in 2001, all changed. No longer was Eric&#8217;s Island, from its Norse name, a place of destination; it became a part of <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=1694\">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-1694","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\/1694"}],"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=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1697,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions\/1697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}