{"id":795,"date":"2014-10-13T19:47:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T19:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grahamkennedy.co.uk\/?p=795"},"modified":"2014-10-13T19:50:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T19:50:21","slug":"autumn-colemere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grahamkennedy.co.uk\/index.php\/autumn-colemere\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn at Colemere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An area of Shropshire that is rapidly becoming a bit of a favorite with me, Colemere is a really nice place to visit, short enough for a pleasant\u00a0walk and lots of open space to relax.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Owned and managed by Shropshire Council, Colemere is one of Shropshire\u2019s most beautiful meres, it is almost completely surrounded by mature woodland with two very attractive hay meadows. The site attracts a variety of wildfowl and waders, including Snipe, Curlew, Goldeneye, and Pochard. \u00a0During the spring and summer flowers such as Southern Marsh Orchid, Meadow Cranesbill and Lady\u2019s Smock can be seen in the meadows. \u00a0It is the only site in England where the glacial relic, the Least Water Lily grows.\u00a0 Numerous species of insects are attracted to the site including the Brown Hawker dragonfly and Common Blue damselfly.\u00a0 Parking is available and an easy access footpath goes all around the mere.\u00a0 It is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest.<\/p>\n<p>Text taken from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themeresandmosses.co.uk\/sites\/31\/cole-mere.htm\">Meres and Mosses website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An area of Shropshire that is rapidly becoming a bit of a favorite with me, Colemere is a really nice place to visit, short enough for a pleasant\u00a0walk and lots of open space to relax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landscapes","category-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/grahamkennedy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC3544-Edit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3cEYy-cP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grahamkennedy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grahamkennedy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grahamkennedy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grahamkennedy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grahamkennedy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/grahamkennedy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"http:\/\/grahamkennedy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grahamkennedy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grahamkennedy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grahamkennedy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grahamkennedy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}