{"id":961,"date":"2009-01-04T21:03:47","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T21:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/?p=961"},"modified":"2009-01-04T21:03:47","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T21:03:47","slug":"out-and-about-over-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/?p=961","title":{"rendered":"Out and about over Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/img_9268close-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/img_9268close-small-600x399.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"img_9268close-small\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-962\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/img_9268close-small-600x399.jpg 600w, http:\/\/chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/img_9268close-small.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNo depression for me this year!  Even though I cannot cycle &#8211; a knee problem &#8211; the cold weather and a lot of sunshine meant that I could be outside with a camera.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaplog.co.uk\/gallery\/main.php?g2_itemId=71124\">Some photographs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The short days disguised the fact that I could not go far. The new boots were a motivation and the frozen ground and periods of sunshine made it at times delightful. If only we could have this weather every winter.<\/p>\n<p>I have really enjoyed walking this holiday.  It is not often when the forecast suggests that the best weather &#8211; sunshine &#8211; will only be in the Pennines. On one day I drove into Manchester, foggy, was seen by a consultant and was home by 8:30.  I was walking on the moors by 9:15 in sunshine looking down on a sea of freezing mist in the valleys.  I bought, just before I stopped bouldering, a Rab down jacket at great expense that had been worn twice.  The weather has never been cold enough to wear it. Today I put it on and with two pairs of Ron Hill tracksuit bottoms I was prepared for the worst.  In fact with no wind and sunshine.  I walked for a couple of hours without a hat, gloves or jacket.  The air temperature was below freezing the whole day.   I wore a ruck sac filled with the clothing I thought I would need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No depression for me this year! Even though I cannot cycle &#8211; a knee problem &#8211; the cold weather and a lot of sunshine meant that I could be outside with a camera. Some photographs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaplog.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}