{"id":4969,"date":"2013-06-10T10:27:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T10:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bletherskite.net\/?p=4969"},"modified":"2013-06-10T10:27:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T10:27:42","slug":"cycling-on-a-sunny-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/?p=4969","title":{"rendered":"Cycling on a Sunny Afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago I took advantage of a lovely sunny day in Edinburgh and cycled along the Innocent Railway, then on to Craigmillar Castle. The castle is an amazingly well-preserved 14th Century castle just on the outskirts of the Scottish capital. It was home to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/scottish_clans\/clan_preston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Preston<\/a> family for over 250 years and was visited many times by Mary Queen of Scots.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote about my adventure for the lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/bikeablejo.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bikeable Jo over on her blog<\/a> which chronicles cycling adventures on the streets of Edinburgh. I also discovered that the bicycle was invented by none other than a Scotsman &#8211; good work Scotland! <a href=\"http:\/\/bikeablejo.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/07\/bikeable-guests-cycling-on-a-sunny-afternoon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You can read my post here<\/a>, and I&#8217;ve also uploaded an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tartanfootprint.com\/advancedphoto\/album\/1132\/innocent-railway-and-craigmillar-castle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">album to Tartan Footprint with my photos<\/a> from the journey.<\/p>\n<p>Happy reading!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5917\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5917\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bike1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5917\" alt=\"The Innocent Railway Tunnel\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bike1.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Innocent Railway Tunnel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5919\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5919\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bike2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5919\" alt=\"Craigmillar Castle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bike2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"601\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Craigmillar Castle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago I took advantage of a lovely sunny day in Edinburgh and cycled along the Innocent Railway, then on to Craigmillar Castle. The castle is an amazingly well-preserved 14th Century castle just on the outskirts of the Scottish capital. It was home to the Preston family for over 250 years and was visited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,462,366,7],"tags":[868,869,870,241,871,872,873,182,874],"class_list":["post-4969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scottish-clans","category-preston","category-scottish-adventure","category-scottish-history","tag-bicycle","tag-craigmillar-castle","tag-cycling","tag-edinburgh","tag-holyrood-park","tag-innocent-railway","tag-kirkpatrick-macmillan","tag-mary-queen-of-scots","tag-preston"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}