{"id":810,"date":"2016-08-23T08:27:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T14:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=810"},"modified":"2016-08-23T08:27:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T14:27:21","slug":"a-weekend-in-county-mayo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=810","title":{"rendered":"A weekend in County Mayo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A spur of the moment weekend in Westport, on the west coast of Ireland. The weather was typically &#8220;Irish&#8221;, i.e. pretty terrible, but this is still a wonderful part of the country to explore. The road along the coast here is dubbed the &#8220;Wild Atlantic Way&#8221;, and for once the tourist designation is spot on.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_811\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/lough_ireland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-811\" src=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/lough_ireland-1024x410.jpg\" alt=\"Doolough valley, County Mayo\" width=\"640\" height=\"256\" class=\"size-large wp-image-811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/lough_ireland-1024x410.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/lough_ireland-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/lough_ireland-768x307.jpg 768w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/lough_ireland-500x200.jpg 500w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/lough_ireland.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doolough valley, County Mayo<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_812\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/county_mayo_coast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-812\" src=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/county_mayo_coast-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Coast, County Mayo\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-large wp-image-812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/county_mayo_coast-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/county_mayo_coast-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/county_mayo_coast-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/county_mayo_coast-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/county_mayo_coast.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coast, County Mayo<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spur of the moment weekend in Westport, on the west coast of Ireland. The weather was typically &#8220;Irish&#8221;, i.e. pretty terrible, but this is still a wonderful part of the country to explore. The road along the coast here &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=810\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-locations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}