{"id":1237,"date":"2018-05-21T12:38:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T19:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waleswatching\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2018-05-21T12:42:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T19:42:33","slug":"the-castle-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waleswatching\/?p=1237","title":{"rendered":"The Castle Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I cheaped out and didn&#8217;t pay 11.50 for castle admission (I would have, but with half the castle closed for restoration, I really felt I should only be paying 6.25).<\/p>\n<p>So to bring you this post, I poached my own photos from my first visit to Conwy two years ago. Behold, a rather vintage castle post:<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Conwy Castle from a distance:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1243 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waleswatching\/files\/2018\/05\/fullsizeoutput_5d4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"254\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Confession: That one isn&#8217;t mine. At the time having been focused on the minutiae of medieval mortar and the kinds of moss that grows on battlements, I failed to get many big-picture images.)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the interior as seen from the top of one of the skinny towers:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1241 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waleswatching\/files\/2018\/05\/fullsizeoutput_5cf.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"727\" height=\"544\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a bit more of the interior:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1239 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waleswatching\/files\/2018\/05\/fullsizeoutput_5d1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"490\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s that lovely river harbor:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1240 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waleswatching\/files\/2018\/05\/fullsizeoutput_5d0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s an interior, although in the spirit of full disclosure this one might be from Caernarvon Castle:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1242 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waleswatching\/files\/2018\/05\/fullsizeoutput_5d2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"537\" height=\"729\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cheaped out and didn&#8217;t pay 11.50 for castle admission (I would have, but with half the castle closed for restoration, I really felt I should only be paying 6.25). So to bring you this post, I poached my own photos from my first visit to Conwy two years ago. Behold, a rather vintage castle &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waleswatching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waleswatching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waleswatching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waleswatching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waleswatching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waleswatching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waleswatching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waleswatching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waleswatching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waleswatching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}