{"id":895,"date":"2007-07-24T00:07:15","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T23:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/895"},"modified":"2013-11-24T18:46:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T18:46:13","slug":"rain-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/rain-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Well it rained again today. All day, without any noticeable break. Floods aren&#39;t a problem where I live. We&#39;re at the top of the South Downs (several hundred feet elevation), rather than in the valley, but by all accounts the situation in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/6912650.stm\" target=\"_blank\">other parts of the country<\/a> is pretty bad, with over quarter of a million people without piped drinking water and many others with no power. When our region was hit a few years ago it took about a year for some homes to be made habitable again. <\/p>\n<p>So for me it&#39;s just the mild misery of grey days in the middle of summer, and lost opportunities to spend some decent time out with the camera. <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/dew_pond_2307071079.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Rain falling on the dew pond<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/snail_2307071081.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">The snails are thriving in the damp conditions<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/toad_2307071042.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">And I even had a rare sight of a toad in the garden pond<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/fox_cub_shy_2307071098.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">The shy fox cub flashed by in the drizzle this evening<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/fox_cub_2307071087.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">And of course, the regular cub emerged in his waterproof coat<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,87,1042],"tags":[1128,313,1164,1150],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","category-toad","category-weather-2","tag-fox","tag-rain","tag-snail","tag-toad","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}