{"id":597,"date":"2014-12-16T15:16:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T15:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/?p=597"},"modified":"2014-12-16T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T15:16:10","slug":"great-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/great-seas\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Great Seas&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_598\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1-storm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-598\" class=\"wp-image-598\" src=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1-storm.jpg\" alt=\"Ardnamurchan storm\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1-storm.jpg 2000w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1-storm-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1-storm-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Storm at Ardnamurchan Point<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The name Ardnamurchan has been translated in various ways. \u00a0Angus Henderson in his &#8216;Ardnamurchan Place Names&#8217; says that the derivation\u00a0is entirely Gaelic, with the first two words easily translated into English: <em>Aird<\/em> is height or headland, and <em>nam<\/em>\u00a0means of. \u00a0The remaining part, murchan, has been translated as <em>mor chuan<\/em>, great seas, <em>muir chon<\/em> meaning sea hounds or whales, <em>muirchol<\/em> meaning hazel sea, or <em>murdhuchan<\/em> meaning mermaids, sea sirens or sea-nymphs.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at this superb photo, taken near the lighthouse by Ricky Clark, an employee of Ardnamurchan Estate, at the height of the severe storm of 10th December, there&#8217;s little doubt as to which is the most appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name Ardnamurchan has been translated in various ways. \u00a0Angus Henderson in his &#8216;Ardnamurchan Place Names&#8217; says that the derivation\u00a0is entirely Gaelic, with the first two words easily translated into English: Aird is height&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,82],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ardnamurchan-today","category-photo-of-the-week","tag-ardnamurchan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","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=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}