{"id":224,"date":"2016-06-10T18:30:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T22:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/?p=224"},"modified":"2016-08-07T02:00:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T06:00:57","slug":"about-srathpeffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/2016\/06\/10\/about-srathpeffer\/","title":{"rendered":"June 10: About Strathpeffer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-240\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160611_Highlander-Hotel-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Highlander Hotel, Strathpeffer\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160611_Highlander-Hotel-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160611_Highlander-Hotel-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160611_Highlander-Hotel.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Highlander Hotel, Strathpeffer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Strathpeffer\u00a0is a resort town of days gone by.\u00a0 It also reminded me of the Catskills.\u00a0 Our hotel\u2019s staircase did have a streak of old elegance, with interesting clan-maps of Scotland and Scottish patterned carpets.\u00a0 But upon the entry to each floor, an ugly firewall had been installed to bring it up to 21st century code. \u00a0Past the firewall were run-down, fireproof carpets reminding of nursing homes, not a resort hotel.\u00a0 The reason the staircase carpets do still look good may be that most hotel guests are too old to walk them.\u00a0 The hotel\u2019s restaurant menu looked like a fancy version of happy hour for seniors at Denny\u2019s, so we decided to eat elsewhere.\u00a0 That meal was not fancy but perfectly reasonable.\u00a0 I tried haggis for the first time.\u00a0 It was greasy junk food, but enjoyable in its own way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.85em;\">Photograph \u00a9 2016 <a title=\"P.J.'s home page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/\">P.J. Gardner<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strathpeffer\u00a0is a resort town of days gone by.\u00a0 It also reminded me of the Catskills.\u00a0 Our hotel\u2019s staircase did have a streak of old elegance, with interesting clan-maps of Scotland and Scottish patterned carpets.\u00a0 But upon the entry to each floor, an ugly firewall had been installed to bring it up to 21st century code. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/2016\/06\/10\/about-srathpeffer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;June 10: About Strathpeffer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}