{"id":477,"date":"2014-05-12T19:04:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T19:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/?p=477"},"modified":"2014-05-13T18:07:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T18:07:20","slug":"another-good-soaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":"Another good soaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Day 41<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After a relatively dry morning, I set off for a quick loop at lunchtime. This time it didn&#8217;t even wait for me to get the dogs harnessed before the heavens opened with a mixture of hail and rain that continued for almost the entire walk. This was a typical view for the walk &#8211; not a great picture but my camera&#8217;s auto exposure had messed up which is the first time it had done that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSCN0736.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"478\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/?attachment_id=478\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSCN0736.jpg?fit=1200%2C1600\" data-orig-size=\"1200,1600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.7&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;COOLPIX L820&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1399898980&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;8.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSCN0736\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSCN0736.jpg?fit=225%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSCN0736.jpg?fit=474%2C632\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-478\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSCN0736.jpg?resize=474%2C632\" alt=\"DSCN0736\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSCN0736.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSCN0736.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSCN0736.jpg?w=1200 1200w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSCN0736.jpg?w=948 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was a bit of a quick dash due to the miserable weather so I didn&#8217;t really get a chance to take a lot of decent pictures. Some of the gorse is beginning to get a bit past its best. The most interesting thing I came across was this lichen which was &#8220;flowering&#8221;. It was all over the place which is a good sign for air quality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSCN0738.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"479\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/?attachment_id=479\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSCN0738.jpg?fit=1600%2C1200\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;COOLPIX L820&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1399899608&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;23.4&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSCN0738\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSCN0738.jpg?fit=300%2C225\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSCN0738.jpg?fit=474%2C356\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-479\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSCN0738.jpg?resize=474%2C355\" alt=\"DSCN0738\" width=\"474\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSCN0738.jpg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSCN0738.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSCN0738.jpg?w=1600 1600w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSCN0738.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSCN0738.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is a bit tiny so is hard to get a decent picture with a relatively cheep point and pray camera. This is known as Devil&#8217;s matchstick and it brought a lovely dash of colour to the place.<\/p>\n<p>So after a thorough drenching I got back home from a quick loop relatively refreshed. It had been a few days since I managed to get out &#8211; a combination of busyness and bad weather kept me off the mountain for the weekend so it was nice to get out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 41 After a relatively dry morning, I set off for a quick loop at lunchtime. This time it didn&#8217;t even wait for me to get the dogs harnessed before the heavens opened with a mixture of hail and rain that continued for almost the entire walk. This was a typical view for the walk &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/?p=477\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another good soaking<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,2],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paARl1-7H","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}