{"id":195,"date":"2005-03-07T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-07T09:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/03\/ebbor-gorge\/"},"modified":"2005-03-07T09:23:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-07T09:23:00","slug":"ebbor-gorge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/03\/ebbor-gorge\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebbor Gorge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hearthside.co.uk\/Ebbor\/ebbor.htm\" target=_blank><img SRC=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/ebbor6_lg.jpg\" width=375><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love this place. It&#8217;s in Somerset, western England, just above the small city of Wells, with it&#8217;s spectacular 12th Century Cathedral. Up the hill past Wookey Hole, which is a deep set of caverns full of tourists, towards Cheddar, which is the bigger more popular natural attraction, you get to a tiny car park with a couple of footpaths unobtrusively leading down into a crack in the hilltop. You enter a deep ravine which brims with life, and following the winding path, after 30 or 40 minutes move up and emerge from the trees onto a high cliff which looks back across the gorge and towards Glastonbury and the endless Somerset levels.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a beautiful place, which once housed Iron age people. It would have been safe here, defendable, sheltered from wind and weather, far from the invaders&#8217; coast. I shot a video here. We dressed up like mannikins and cavorted like children on the cliff, the setting sun making us magical in red and gold.<\/p>\n<p>This is the place I found contentment with <i>H<\/i>, who had precious little of that in her short life.<\/p>\n<p>This fertile green split in the earth will spill out at a moment&#8217;s notice and rejuvenate the surrounding farmed grassland, once the people have gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this place. It&#8217;s in Somerset, western England, just above the small city of Wells, with it&#8217;s spectacular 12th Century Cathedral. Up the hill past Wookey Hole, which is a deep set of caverns full of tourists, towards Cheddar, which is the bigger more popular natural attraction, you get to a tiny car park [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}