{"id":572,"date":"2014-10-28T17:20:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T17:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/?p=572"},"modified":"2014-10-28T17:20:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T17:20:16","slug":"quiet-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/quiet-beaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiet Beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_573\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-beach.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-573\" class=\"wp-image-573\" src=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-beach.jpg\" alt=\"Shelley Beach\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-beach.jpg 2000w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-beach-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-beach-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Coast Beach<\/p><\/div>\n<p>October is often a beautiful month on Ardnamurchan, and this year&#8217;s didn&#8217;t disappoint &#8211; until a week ago, when a vicious gale drove in from the Atlantic and was followed by days of heavy rain, with two inches falling in one day alone. \u00a0In their time, the MacIains would have been quite used to this sudden variability, and would have responded\u00a0as people here do today, seizing the opportunity of a beautiful day to be outside enjoying it.<\/p>\n<p>This picture, taken in October sunshine, shows one of the many small, secluded, silent\u00a0beaches strung along Ardnamurchan&#8217;s\u00a0north coast, with the isles of Muck and Rum along the horizon. Today, the machair,\u00a0the\u00a0area of lime-rich soil covered with grass at the back of the beach, is a favourite with the local sheep, but one can imagine men camping on it, their\u00a0fighting ships\u00a0pulled up on the beach, protected by a\u00a0fort, the remains of which can be found on the hill behind it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October is often a beautiful month on Ardnamurchan, and this year&#8217;s didn&#8217;t disappoint &#8211; until a week ago, when a vicious gale drove in from the Atlantic and was followed by days of heavy&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-week","tag-vikings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","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=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}