{"id":1730,"date":"2015-08-07T09:25:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T10:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2015-08-07T09:28:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T10:28:06","slug":"alternative-selfie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1730","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Selfie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"Alternative Selfie\" 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\/08\/DSCF1656.jpg\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1730\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"color\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p>I notice that the grass had been cut today in the bonfire field, as I call it.\u00a0 it is a small piece of land bounded on two sides by burns by Station Road, and the Hatton Mill on the other two.\u00a0This is where the bonfire takes place in November each year.\u00a0It is very rough wet ground,\u00a0with the weeds (wild flowers?) growing high &#8211; \u00a0not the place where I usually walk the dogs.\u00a0 But tonight was different.<\/p>\n<p>The sun was low in the sky behind the Mill and as we wandered over the cut grass I noticed an unusual pattern: long shadows of the Mill and me.\u00a0 I usually try to make sure that my shadow is not in any of the pictures I take, but tonight was different.\u00a0\u00a0 So I shot an &#8220;alternative selfie&#8221; of my shadow and the distinctive hat which adorns the top of the Mill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCF1656.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1729\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCF1656.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF1656\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCF1656.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCF1656-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCF1656-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I notice that the grass had been cut today in the bonfire field, as I call it.\u00a0 it is a small piece of land bounded on two sides by burns by Station Road, and the Hatton Mill on the other two.\u00a0This is where the bonfire takes place in November each year.\u00a0It is very rough wet&#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-1730","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\/1730","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=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}