{"id":636,"date":"2013-05-14T14:37:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T14:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/irregulars\/?p=636"},"modified":"2013-05-14T14:37:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T14:37:06","slug":"seen-in-devon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/irregulars\/2013\/05\/14\/seen-in-devon\/","title":{"rendered":"Seen in Devon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"adders multiplying by Philip Strange, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/91042687@N08\/8721916327\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"adders multiplying\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7426\/8721916327_bdd006d304_c.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"486\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On a recent family walk near Beesands in South Devon (in the fog if you look carefully), we spotted this sign on land behind the beach.\u00a0 Perhaps we were all in a silly mood but it made us smile and lead my wife to sum up the mood: \u201cI see the adders are multiplying\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Some background<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The adder is the UK\u2019s only native venomous snake and every year as many as a hundred people are bitten.<\/p>\n<p>Beesands is basically a long stony beach with a few houses, a pub and a caf\u00e9.\u00a0 There is also a small lake (Widdicombe Ley) with a bird hide.\u00a0 Not much goes on here although the caf\u00e9 features in lists of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/travel\/2010\/jul\/13\/best-seafood-in-devon\">fish shacks <\/a>and there is fishing off the beach.\u00a0 The pub, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecricketinn.com\/\">Cricket Inn<\/a>, is popular and I was amused to discover that many years ago Keith Richards and Mick Jagger gave their first public performance here as an Everly Brothers-style duo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a recent family walk near Beesands in South Devon (in the fog if you look carefully), we spotted this sign on land behind the beach.\u00a0 Perhaps we were all in a silly mood but it made us smile and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/irregulars\/2013\/05\/14\/seen-in-devon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,20],"tags":[165,163,164],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-guestposts","tag-adders","tag-beesands","tag-devon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/irregulars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/irregulars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/irregulars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/irregulars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/irregulars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/irregulars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/irregulars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/irregulars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/irregulars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}