{"id":594,"date":"2019-07-07T19:43:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T18:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=594"},"modified":"2019-07-07T19:44:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T18:44:49","slug":"och-para-handy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2019\/07\/07\/och-para-handy\/","title":{"rendered":"Och, Para Handy!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some people my age might remember at television series about a Clyde Puffer called the Vital Spark. The series was based on the stories of Neil Munro, who was from Inveraray, where Janet and I spent part of a day off after three days&#8217; walk squeezed into an arduous two days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"399\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_0500-e1562524441837-399x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_0500-e1562524441837-399x1024.jpg 399w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_0500-e1562524441837-117x300.jpg 117w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_0500-e1562524441837.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We relaxed alongside many other tourists in this touristical spot. Oddly, it was this row of bins that caught my eye. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_0502-e1562524161731-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_0502-e1562524161731-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_0502-e1562524161731-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_0502-e1562524161731.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, to ensure that Janet&#8217;s vital spark didn&#8217;t go out, we had a day to rest and be thankful. We rested, and prayed later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Handy that today we crossed the Rest and Be Thankful pass &#8211; much easier than crossing it on my bike nineteen years ago. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people my age might remember at television series about a Clyde Puffer called the Vital Spark. The series was based on the stories of Neil Munro, who was from Inveraray, where Janet and I spent part of a day off after three days&#8217; walk squeezed into an arduous two days. We relaxed alongside many &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2019\/07\/07\/och-para-handy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Och, Para Handy!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}