{"id":1421,"date":"2015-09-20T17:24:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T17:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babbnet.com\/wordpress\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2015-09-20T20:08:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T20:08:48","slug":"martin-mere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/babbnet.com\/wordpress\/?p=1421","title":{"rendered":"Martin Mere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got around to visiting Martin Mere in September 2015.\u00a0The mere is a vast marsh, that was, until it was drained, the largest body of fresh water in England.<\/p>\n<p>It is now a wetland nature reserve managed by the <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wildfowl_and_Wetlands_Trust\">Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust<\/a>.\u00a0The reserve is at its best in winter, attracting huge flocks of pink-footed geese and wigeon, many whooper swans and occasional rarer birds such as the snow goose.<\/p>\n<p>It is also excellent for wintering birds of prey such as hen harrier, peregrine and merlin.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got around to visiting Martin Mere in September 2015.\u00a0The mere is a vast marsh, that was, until it was drained, the largest body of fresh water in England. It is now a wetland nature reserve managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust.\u00a0The reserve is at its best in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101012,"featured_media":1539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,286,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","category-lancashire","category-places","column","threecol","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/babbnet.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/babbnet.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/babbnet.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babbnet.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/101012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babbnet.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/babbnet.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517,"href":"https:\/\/babbnet.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/1517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babbnet.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/babbnet.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babbnet.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babbnet.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}