{"id":1763,"date":"2014-01-06T06:46:07","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T06:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2014-01-06T06:46:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T06:46:07","slug":"big-sky-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=1763","title":{"rendered":"Big Sky Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1762\" style=\"width: 123px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Howbeg-South-Uist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1762\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1762\" alt=\"Tobha Beag -(Howbeg ) South Uist\" src=\"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Howbeg-South-Uist.jpg\" width=\"113\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tobha Beag -(Howbeg ) South Uist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Expansive beaches, sweeping machair shorelines and here, at Tobha Beag (Howbeg), from <a title=\"Radius Images\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radiusimages.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Radius Images<\/a>, is a photograph that makes an ultimate statement of &#8211;\u00a0<strong>&#8216;Big Sky<\/strong>&#8216;. There is an irony here as the Gaelic &#8216;beag&#8217; is translated as &#8216;small&#8217;. Nearby <strong>Howmore<\/strong> comes from the opposite, &#8216;Tobha Mor&#8217;. Whatever the derivations may be, countless hostellers have found themselves looking around, beyond and &#8230; up &#8230; to what is a remarkable sight &#8211; both during the daytime and at night. The amount of pollution is low here &#8211; in terms of the air being briskly cleansed by the wind and the presence of artificial light being limited by the demands of a rural, scattered population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expansive beaches, sweeping machair shorelines and here, at Tobha Beag (Howbeg), from Radius Images, is a photograph that makes an ultimate statement of &#8211;\u00a0&#8216;Big Sky&#8216;. There is an irony here as the Gaelic &#8216;beag&#8217; is translated as &#8216;small&#8217;. Nearby Howmore comes from the opposite, &#8216;Tobha Mor&#8217;. Whatever the derivations may be, countless hostellers have found <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=1763\">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-1763","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\/1763"}],"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=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1772,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions\/1772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}