{"id":1658,"date":"2015-07-15T06:43:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T07:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2015-07-15T06:43:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T07:43:08","slug":"a-secret-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1658","title":{"rendered":"A secret place"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"A secret place\" 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\/07\/DSCF1326.jpg\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1658\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"color\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p>I have just been listening to an item on the radio news about the dangers of giant hogweed.\u00a0 I remember\u00a0a number of years ago this was in the news with children being burned by the sap.\u00a0 Councils took action and the offending plants were sprayed.\u00a0\u00a0We were all warned to stay well away. \u00a0I have been noticing this year that this dramatic looking\u00a0plant has been making a reappearance.\u00a0 I see it marching along riverbanks, all over the country.<\/p>\n<p>I have delved back into my photographs and found this picture which I took beside the River Brent in London in June this year.\u00a0\u00a0 As I walked width the dogs I noticed the little gate leading to a houseboat.\u00a0 It was a mysterious looking place hidden\u00a0away in the undergrowth, with &#8220;private keep out&#8221; signs about &#8211; and a giant hogweed looming over.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It look mysterious, secret, threatening &#8212;\u00a0just the sort of place you could imagine something sinister happening&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCF1326.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1657\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCF1326.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF1326\" width=\"667\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCF1326.jpg 667w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCF1326-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCF1326-624x936.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just been listening to an item on the radio news about the dangers of giant hogweed.\u00a0 I remember\u00a0a number of years ago this was in the news with children being burned by the sap.\u00a0 Councils took action and the offending plants were sprayed.\u00a0\u00a0We were all warned to stay well away. \u00a0I have been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-further"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","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=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1659,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}