{"id":1599,"date":"2015-06-30T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2015-06-30T16:22:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T17:22:00","slug":"strichen-stone-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1599","title":{"rendered":"Strichen Stone Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"Strichen Stone Circle\" data-info-url=\"\" data-backend-url=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gft\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF1449.jpg\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1599\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"color\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p>There are many prehistoric stone circles in Aberdeenshire.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They are small compared to the likes of Stonehenge, but still wonderful and mysterious.\u00a0 I took the dogs for a walk yesterday through the woods in the Strichen community park and we found ourselves following the path up the little hill to the Strichen stone circle.<\/p>\n<p>I had planned to publish one of the pictures I took of the dogs on the stones, but I have changed my mind.\u00a0 When I uploaded the pictures to Flickr, I quickly received two favourable comments, one from Munich and one from Slovenia,\u00a0from people who liked one of the pictures.\u00a0 It was taken half way up the hill where I stopped to watch a tractor working in a field.\u00a0\u00a0 It was not a sunny day, but the greenness of the Aberdeenshire countryside is very much in evidence.\u00a0 We often take the ordinary countryside round about us for granted, but it clearly touched at least two people in far away places in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I will publish a pictures of the ancient Aberdeenshire stones another day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF1449.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1600\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF1449.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF1449\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF1449.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF1449-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF1449-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many prehistoric stone circles in Aberdeenshire.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They are small compared to the likes of Stonehenge, but still wonderful and mysterious.\u00a0 I took the dogs for a walk yesterday through the woods in the Strichen community park and we found ourselves following the path up the little hill to the Strichen stone circle. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crudencountry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}