{"id":979,"date":"2010-05-18T10:57:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T09:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/?p=979"},"modified":"2012-05-29T21:57:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T20:57:10","slug":"itchy-coo-park-wild-highland-coos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2010\/05\/itchy-coo-park-wild-highland-coos\/","title":{"rendered":"Itchy coo park.  Wild Highland Coos."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think this is what George Lucas saw when he imagined some of the\u00a0 creatures he created for Star Wars?<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WtAd2WIUmu0&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WtAd2WIUmu0&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object>\u00a0These little beauties are a \u00a0cross between a wooly mammoth and a bear and they are all around us. Whilst on the Island of Mull the number of these gentle hairy galoots made it impossible to get anywhere fast.\u00a0 I kept stopping the car for a good stare.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_983\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-983\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/West-Coast-065.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-983\" title=\"West Coast 065\" src=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/West-Coast-065-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hairy Galoot just stared as we watched his gigantic friend.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Well that and the sheep and lambs lounging casually in the middle of the one track roads. A staunch meat eater having witnessed these lovely beasties I have to confess vegetarianism is now a realistic possibility.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think this is what George Lucas saw when he imagined some of the\u00a0 creatures he created for Star Wars?\u00a0These little beauties are a&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,24],"tags":[598,597,595,594,18,568,582,596],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}