{"id":852,"date":"2011-07-05T21:41:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T20:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=852"},"modified":"2011-07-05T21:41:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T20:41:57","slug":"in-the-kayak-at-dochgarroch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/05\/in-the-kayak-at-dochgarroch\/","title":{"rendered":"In the kayak at Dochgarroch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_853\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-853\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"853\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sea_kayak_eve.jpg\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sea_kayak_eve.jpg?fit=800%2C545&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,545\" 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=\"Paddlesport evening, Dochgarroch\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;John at Dochgarroch in the sea kayak.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sea_kayak_eve.jpg?fit=640%2C436&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sea_kayak_eve-300x204.jpg?resize=300%2C204\" alt=\"\" title=\"Paddlesport evening, Dochgarroch\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sea_kayak_eve.jpg?resize=300%2C204&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sea_kayak_eve.jpg?resize=150%2C102&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sea_kayak_eve.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John at Dochgarroch in the sea kayak.<\/figcaption><\/figure>Here&#8217;s a quick snap of me this evening at the Paddlesport Open Evening at Dochgarroch, which was organised by Explore Highland and a few other local paddle sport companies.<\/p>\n<p>Had a great time on the water again &#8211; but couldn&#8217;t convince Meg to give it a go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick snap of me this evening at the Paddlesport Open Evening at Dochgarroch, which was organised by Explore Highland and a few other local paddle sport companies. Had a great time on the water again &#8211; but couldn&#8217;t convince Meg to give it a go!<\/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-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5M0xs-dK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":823,"url":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/30\/river-ness-kayak\/","url_meta":{"origin":852,"position":0},"title":"UPDATED WITH PHOTOS: River Ness kayak","author":"John Davidson","date":"June 30, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Home from a fantastic night out on the River Ness in a kayak thanks to Explore Highland. 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