{"id":6403,"date":"2015-08-05T06:31:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T06:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6403"},"modified":"2015-08-05T06:31:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T06:31:48","slug":"the-big-path-watch-how-was-it-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/08\/05\/the-big-path-watch-how-was-it-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Path Watch \u2013 how was it for you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ramblers are encouraging us all, through its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ramblers.org.uk\/news\/news\/2015\/january\/the-big-pathwatch.aspx\">big path watch<\/a>, to adopt a local grid square, walk all the rights of way within it, and report back to them on any problems found, and more generally, on how it was as an experience.<\/p>\n<p>I walked one of 'my squares' the other day, and discovered a few obstructions, a missing sign or two, and some complete blockages. \u00a0I managed to report these through the\u00a0Ramblers rather awkward website. \u00a0A positive outcome, I thought.<\/p>\n<p>But I think the Ramblers have lost their way here as there is, for my money, far too much emphasis on listing the walk's attractions, and saying whether you'd enjoyed yourself, and not enough opportunity\u00a0to provide necessary detail of problems. \u00a0For example, I wanted to report a well-constructed but awkward\u00a0stile \u2013 not possible. \u00a0I also wanted to report an overgrown stile where the path was ok because you could by-pass the stile through a huge gap in the hedge where a gate no longer was\u00a0\u2013 not possible.<\/p>\n<p>My feeling is that with a bit more thought (and trialling on the ground) \u2013 this could have been a whole lot better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ramblers are encouraging us all, through its big path watch, to adopt a local grid square, walk all the rights of way within it, and report back to them on any problems found, and more generally, on how it...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}