{"id":2111,"date":"2008-04-08T11:23:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T10:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/paddler-lifestyle-articles\/benpyranha\/something-of-a-contrast\/"},"modified":"2008-04-08T11:23:59","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T10:23:59","slug":"something-of-a-contrast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/something-of-a-contrast\/","title":{"rendered":"Something of a contrast&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swapping play boat for creek boat, 40 degrees C to -5, sun for snow, big volume for low, Africa for Scotland&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/nilesunrise.jpg\" title=\"nilesunrise.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/nilesunrise.thumbnail.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" alt=\"nilesunrise.jpg\" class=\"imageframe imgalignleft\" \/><\/a> The River Nile, steaming at sunrise, Uganda<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/etive004.jpg\" title=\"etive004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/etive004.thumbnail.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" alt=\"etive004.jpg\" class=\"imageframe imgaligncenter\" \/><\/a> Snow capped Etive Valley, Glen Coe, Scotland<\/p>\n<p>The now ritual, Easter, low water, trek to the west coast of Scotland. With Snow capped hills and daily flurries whilst on the water it was a shock to the system to say the least! However getting back to grips with the Burn and getting back out on the UK rivers was awesome&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/punch.jpg\" title=\"punch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/punch.thumbnail.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" alt=\"punch.jpg\" class=\"imageframe imgalignleft\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/etive001.jpg\" title=\"etive001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/etive001.thumbnail.jpg\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" alt=\"etive001.jpg\" class=\"imageframe imgalignleft\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photos from the River Etive<br \/>\nThanks to Birmingham University Kayak Club, for organising the trip and creating much amusement both on and off the river<\/p>\n<p>Stay Warm<br \/>\nBen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swapping play boat for creek boat, 40 degrees C to -5, sun for snow, big volume for low, Africa for Scotland&#8230; The River Nile, steaming at sunrise, Uganda Snow capped Etive Valley, Glen Coe, Scotland The now ritual, Easter, low water, trek to the west coast of Scotland. With Snow capped hills and daily flurries &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/something-of-a-contrast\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paddler-lifestyle-articles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9tk9G-y3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}