{"id":1736,"date":"2015-08-09T06:50:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T07:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2015-08-11T12:31:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T13:31:04","slug":"a-surprise-at-the-sutors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1736","title":{"rendered":"A surprise at the Sutors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"A surprise at the Sutors\" 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\/2015-08-08-19.03.04.jpg\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1736\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"color\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p>&#8220;They will be ready in 15mintues,&#8221; he said.\u00a0\u00a0 Just time to let the dogs stretch their legs and have a look out to sea.\u00a0 We had driven up to Cromarty to spend a week here in one of our favourite places.\u00a0 I had ordered our pizzas and walked\u00a0along the beach.\u00a0\u00a0 What a surprise to see an oil rig moored off the North Sutor at the mouth of the Cromarty Firth.\u00a0 A subsequent search on the internet identified it as Transocean&#8217;s Sedco 714 semi-submersible platform.<\/p>\n<p>I have taken quite a few photographs in this area on previous visits to Cromarty but this is the first time I have seen a rig here.\u00a0 Mind you, there are more rigs parked in the firth just now, many more than when we were last here last autumn.\u00a0 I wonder if the down turn in the North Sea oil industry is to blame?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-08-19.03.04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1737\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-08-19.03.04.jpg\" alt=\"2015-08-08 19.03.04\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-08-19.03.04.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-08-19.03.04-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-08-08-19.03.04-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They will be ready in 15mintues,&#8221; he said.\u00a0\u00a0 Just time to let the dogs stretch their legs and have a look out to sea.\u00a0 We had driven up to Cromarty to spend a week here in one of our favourite places.\u00a0 I had ordered our pizzas and walked\u00a0along the beach.\u00a0\u00a0 What a surprise to see&#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-1736","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\/1736","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=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1755,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}