{"id":2998,"date":"2016-02-16T06:08:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T06:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2016-02-16T06:08:18","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T06:08:18","slug":"carse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=2998","title":{"rendered":"Carse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope very much that Carse is a word with which you will all shortly become familiar, lips sealed just now. \u00a0It describes the reclaimed fertile land around the River Forth. \u00a0It has been many years since I viewed it from the foreshore south of Alloa and Clackmannan, we hied thither at the weekend on a slightly fruitless quest to find Black Devon Wetland, a new RSPB site. \u00a0Found these views instead.<\/p>\n<p>If I tell you that Clackmannanshire is often abbreviated to Clacks., then some of you will realise that the Tower is in fact a sophisticated communication device. \u00a0Especially with those telegraph wires left in.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2999\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2999\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?attachment_id=2999\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2999\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2999\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/image-169x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Wallace\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wallace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3000\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3000\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?attachment_id=3000\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3000\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/image-1-e1455602569367-169x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Snowline\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3000\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snowline<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3001\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3001\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?attachment_id=3001\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3001\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3001\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/image-2-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"Ochils\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ochils<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3002\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3002\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?attachment_id=3002\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3002\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3002\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/image-3-169x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Clackmannan Tower\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3002\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clackmannan Tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope very much that Carse is a word with which you will all shortly become familiar, lips sealed just now. \u00a0It describes the reclaimed fertile land around the River Forth. \u00a0It has been many years since I viewed it from the foreshore south of Alloa and Clackmannan, we hied thither at the weekend on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-after-8-mince","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}