{"id":691,"date":"2011-04-15T23:40:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T22:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=691"},"modified":"2011-04-15T23:44:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T22:44:54","slug":"highland-life-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/15\/highland-life-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Highland Life article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/TC05_04_11P51.pdf\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"692\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/HighlandLife_booklaunch.png\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/HighlandLife_booklaunch.png?fit=200%2C289&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"200,289\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"HighlandLife_booklaunch\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/HighlandLife_booklaunch.png?fit=200%2C289&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-692\" title=\"HighlandLife_booklaunch\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/HighlandLife_booklaunch.png?w=150\" alt=\"Highland Life\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/HighlandLife_booklaunch.png?w=200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/HighlandLife_booklaunch.png?resize=103%2C150&amp;ssl=1 103w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>I was featured in an article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highland-life.co.uk\">Highland Life<\/a> magazine this month to coincide with the launch of my new book.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the page image to read the piece as a PDF.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Katrina (editor) and Catherine (reporter) for giving me some excellent coverage! Highland Life is available on the first Tuesday of every month in the Inverness Courier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was featured in an article in Highland Life magazine this month to coincide with the launch of my new book. Click on the page image to read the piece as a PDF. Thanks to Katrina (editor) and Catherine (reporter) for giving me some excellent coverage! Highland Life is available on the first Tuesday of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5M0xs-b9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1585,"url":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/02\/get-set-for-the-highland-cross\/","url_meta":{"origin":691,"position":0},"title":"Get set for the Highland Cross","author":"John Davidson","date":"June 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u2019m taking part in the Highland Cross - a 50-mile duathlon (20 miles running off road and up hill followed by 30 miles road cycling) going coast to coast across the Highlands - in a few weeks\u2019 time. 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