{"id":1667,"date":"2017-09-28T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1667-edinburgh-castle.html"},"modified":"2017-09-29T02:32:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T16:02:40","slug":"edinburgh-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1667-edinburgh-castle.html","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:2300 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1499-_MG_0204.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nIf I had a drone and was brazen enough to use it in the streets of Edinburgh then I might have been able to capture an image like this. What I would have missed out on was the shear pleasure of this amazing castle vista, not on a device screen but with my very own eyes.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nScotts Monument however provided the perfect place to take in this unobstructed view of Edinburgh Castle with nothing more than a little hard work and 267 vertical steps. At 62 meters above the pavement I could not have asked for a more perfect platform.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPhoto: Robert Rath, &#8216;Edinburgh Castle&#8217;, 1\/500s f\/8 ISO100 70mm<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I had a drone and was brazen enough to use it in the streets of Edinburgh then I might have been able to capture an image like this. What I would have missed out on was the shear pleasure of this amazing castle vista, not on a device screen but with my very own &#8230; <a title=\"Edinburgh Castle\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1667-edinburgh-castle.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Edinburgh Castle\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}