{"id":124,"date":"2009-06-11T11:39:30","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T10:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2009-06-11T11:39:30","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T10:39:30","slug":"cutters-20090609_4715","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"Cutters-20090609_4715"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinta\/3615789429\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3365\/3615789429_883128fc65.jpg\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinta\/3615789429\/\">Cutters-20090609_4715<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/quinta\/\">Paradise in Portugal<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nWith the heat of the summer approaching the Cork cutting season is getting under way. This is a vital economy for our deprived region and as well as providing employment it also sustains the countryside ecologically as well, so it&#8217;s imperative we try to keep it going. I&#8217;m so passionate about it that I&#8217;m going to be giving a lecture about it at the British Bird Fair in Rutland in August &#8211; Marquee 2 15.30 on the Sunday if anyone&#8217;s visiting.<br \/>\nThese few pictures show the cork being taken off the trees &#8211; a highly skilled, uncomfortable and hard job, especially as the temperature rises through the next few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cutters-20090609_4715, originally uploaded by Paradise in Portugal. With the heat of the summer approaching the Cork cutting season is getting under way. This is a vital economy for our deprived region and as well as providing employment it also sustains the countryside ecologically as well, so it&#8217;s imperative we try to keep it going. I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}