{"id":6897,"date":"2017-03-07T06:54:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T06:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6897"},"modified":"2017-03-07T06:54:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T06:54:41","slug":"blencathra-on-the-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/03\/07\/blencathra-on-the-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Blencathra on the BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched a BBC film about Blencathra (a year in the life of) the other week. \u00a0In my younger life, I spent considerable time on that mountain and the film did justice to its fine sculpture: think blooming heather,\u00a0time-lapse scudding clouds, fading sunsets, ... . \u00a0The music was intrusive\u00a0(and not at all\u00a0Cumbrian). \u00a0And there were only a few authentic local\u00a0voices to listen to. \u00a0There was the obligatory tale of the phantom horsemen of Souter Fell despite its\u00a0being quite separate from Blencathra.<\/p>\n<p>When it\u00a0finally finished\u00a0(to much relief) I reflected on\u00a0an omission: there was no mention of the Blencathra <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blencathrafoxhounds.co.uk\">foxhounds<\/a>. \u00a0Given the cultural significance of fox-hunting in the Lake District, and the fact that the Blencathra hunt\u00a0survives today (despite everything right-thinking types\u00a0threw at it), this seemed odd. \u00a0Until, that is, you remembered who the programme was made for. \u00a0Just too hot to handle for the BBC, I guess, as mentioning this core part of the mountain's life\u00a0might be taken as conveying approval which would never do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched a BBC film about Blencathra (a year in the life of) the other week. \u00a0In my younger life, I spent considerable time on that mountain and the film did justice to its fine sculpture: think blooming heather,\u00a0time-lapse scudding...<\/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-6897","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\/6897","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=6897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}