{"id":554,"date":"2014-10-07T11:50:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T11:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/?p=554"},"modified":"2014-10-08T15:06:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T15:06:43","slug":"intriguing-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/intriguing-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"An Intriguing Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_555\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-stone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-555\" class=\"wp-image-555\" src=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-stone.jpg\" alt=\"Stone by Creag an Airgid\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-stone.jpg 1500w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-stone-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-stone-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stone by Creag an Airgid<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This huge rock\u00a0stands beside the road between Sanna and Kilchoan, in the shadow of the hill called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/all-entries\/creag-airgid\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Creag and Airgid<\/em><\/a>, silver crag. \u00a0Intriguingly, its whole top is covered with small pieces of stone which, over the years, people have placed there. \u00a0At one time, we used to stop by it so our young daughter could add another stone, as we described it, &#8220;for luck&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But it may not be a lucky stone. \u00a0In 1518 the chief of the MacIains and two of his sons were killed near this spot, during\u00a0a battle with the invading Campbells, so it&#8217;s possible that the stone commemorates that sad event. \u00a0Another suggestion, which may explain the &#8216;silver&#8217; name of the hill, is that it was by this rock that men returning from delivering cattle to the great market at Falkirk used to gather to be paid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This huge rock\u00a0stands beside the road between Sanna and Kilchoan, in the shadow of the hill called Creag and Airgid, silver crag. \u00a0Intriguingly, its whole top is covered with small pieces of stone which,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,82],"tags":[78,5,6],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clan-maciain","category-photo-of-the-week","tag-creag-an-airgid","tag-history","tag-maciain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}