{"id":605,"date":"2015-01-14T15:28:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T15:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/?p=605"},"modified":"2015-01-14T15:28:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T15:28:58","slug":"gales-batter-ardnamurchan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/gales-batter-ardnamurchan\/","title":{"rendered":"Gales Batter Ardnamurchan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_606\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/1-wilks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-606\" class=\"wp-image-606\" src=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/1-wilks.jpg\" alt=\"A crofter collects whelks amongst the seaweed along the shoreline.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/1-wilks.jpg 1500w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/1-wilks-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/1-wilks-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crofter collects whelks amongst the seaweed along the shoreline.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Since before Christmas, gale after gale has come roaring in from the Atlantic, bringing winds which have gusted up to hurricane force &#8211; the highest speed, recorded at Sanna on the night of 8th\/9th January,\u00a0hit 103mph. \u00a0Despite the appalling weather, local people have been venturing\u00a0out onto the rocks along the foreshore to collect wilks,\u00a0the common periwinkle or winkle <em>Littorina littorea<\/em>. \u00a0This small, edible shellfish is an important export to Mediterranean countries, and can bring a crofter over \u00a3100 a bag at the peak of the season &#8211; which is around Christmas and the New Year. \u00a0Wilks have always been\u00a0a vital part of the winter diet, with heaps of their shells being found in mesolithic middens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since before Christmas, gale after gale has come roaring in from the Atlantic, bringing winds which have gusted up to hurricane force &#8211; the highest speed, recorded at Sanna on the night of 8th\/9th&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[59,32,30],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-week","tag-crofting","tag-mesolithic","tag-middens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","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=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}