{"id":1785,"date":"2014-01-09T07:24:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T07:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2014-01-09T07:24:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T07:24:47","slug":"ormacleit-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=1785","title":{"rendered":"Ormacleit Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1784\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ormacleit-Castle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1784\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1784\" alt=\"Ormacleit Castle\" src=\"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ormacleit-Castle-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ormacleit-Castle-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ormacleit-Castle-280x186.jpg 280w, https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ormacleit-Castle.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ormacleit Castle, South Uist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Three generations of cattle, looking alive and well, pose in front of Ormacleit Castle, defunct and ruined. It is, however, monitored by the <a title=\"Ormacleit Castle\" href=\"http:\/\/canmore.rcahms.gov.uk\/en\/site\/9897\/digital_images\/south+uist+ormiclate+ormaclett+castle\/\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. <\/a>It was occupied from 1705 until 1715 when it burned down, allegedly on the same day that its occupant, Allan Macdonald, was killed at the Battle of Sherriffmuir. So there&#8217;s a 300th anniversary on the horizon, with <strong>Howmore<\/strong> a good place to stop and explore the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three generations of cattle, looking alive and well, pose in front of Ormacleit Castle, defunct and ruined. It is, however, monitored by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. It was occupied from 1705 until 1715 when it burned down, allegedly on the same day that its occupant, Allan Macdonald, was <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=1785\">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-1785","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\/1785"}],"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=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}