{"id":575,"date":"2014-11-03T10:26:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T10:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/?p=575"},"modified":"2014-11-03T10:29:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T10:29:21","slug":"stalking-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/stalking-season\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stalking Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_576\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1-stags.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-576\" class=\"wp-image-576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1-stags.jpg\" alt=\"Young stags\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1-stags.jpg 1600w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1-stags-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1-stags-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young stags on Ardnamurchan Estate<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Red deer have roamed the Highlands for tens of thousands of years, and would have been hunted by humans for almost as long. \u00a0Today, stalking is big business, and the Ardnamurchan Estate, through its subsidiary <a href=\"http:\/\/westhighland-hunting.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">West Highland Hunting<\/a>, welcomes hunters\u00a0from all over the world. \u00a0The main stag stalking season is almost over, but hinds will continue for some weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Many of us prefer to hunt using a camera. \u00a0This photograph was taken a few days ago on Ardnamurchan Estate land and the Estate, through its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildhighlandtours.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Wild Highland Tours<\/a>, offers opportunities\u00a0for those who would like to record the many varieties of wildlife with which Ardnamurchan abounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red deer have roamed the Highlands for tens of thousands of years, and would have been hunted by humans for almost as long. \u00a0Today, stalking is big business, and the Ardnamurchan Estate, through its&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,82,72],"tags":[62,63],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-businesses","category-photo-of-the-week","category-visiting-ardnamurchan","tag-tourism","tag-visitors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","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=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}