{"id":816,"date":"2007-04-07T22:04:34","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T21:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/816"},"modified":"2013-11-26T22:29:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T22:29:22","slug":"a-walk-on-the-downs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-walk-on-the-downs\/","title":{"rendered":"A Walk on the Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Most of my photos tend to be taken from our garden, but I do occasionally go further afield, not least because we are located on the edge of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (a technical\/legal definition, but certainly true). There are also moves to makes significant stretches of the South Downs a National Park.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s why:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/downs_w_0704078462.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"aligncenter\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/downs_w_0704078462.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/span><span class=\"aligncenter\">Welcome to the South Downs<\/span>[\/ALIGN]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/downs_w_dewpond_0704078434.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/downs_w_dewpond_0704078434.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Dew Ponds are an ancient way of preserving water. Clay lined, they hold dew in otherwise chalky areas.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/downs_w_rabbits_0704078393.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/downs_w_rabbits_0704078393.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"460\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">There are plenty of rabbits<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/downs_w_sheep_0704078419.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/downs_w_sheep_0704078419.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><span class=\"alignleft\"><\/span><span class=\"aligncenter\">And sheep&#8230;<\/span>[\/ALIGN]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/downs_w_violet_0704078431.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/downs_w_violet_0704078431.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">The Dog Violet clings on in the grassland<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/downs_w_hawthorn_0704078458.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/downs_w_hawthorn_0704078458.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Gorse grows just about everywhere<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More photos in the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/show.dml?id=147886\" target=\"_blank\">South Downs<\/a> album. And here&#39;s some information about the origin of <a href=\"http:\/\/simon-mitchell.com\/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=126\" target=\"_blank\">Dew Ponds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1003,1041,1004],"tags":[20,144,94],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape-2","category-sheep-wildlife","category-south-downs-national-park-landscape-2","tag-animals","tag-plants","tag-south-downs","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}