{"id":1469,"date":"2010-07-05T15:05:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T15:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2010-07-05T15:05:14","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T15:05:14","slug":"flag-fen-francis-pryor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/flag-fen-francis-pryor\/","title":{"rendered":"Flag Fen&#8217;s Francis Pryor and The Making of the British Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>At Holme Fen, a nature reserve just south of Peterborough, there is a slightly tired-looking, cast-iron green post. When the Victorians began to drain the nearby lake of Whittlesey Mere, the local landowner, William Wells, sank the post into the peat to measure how much the dirt shrank as it dried out. In 1848 the post&#8217;s top was the same level as the earth. Today, its summit is four metres above ground. It marks the lowest point in Britain, and is the centre piece of what is now a stunning silver-birch wood overlooking a man-made lake.  <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noindex,nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/how-weve-made-the-british-landscape-2000462.html\" target=\"new\">Read the Full Review in the Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Holme Fen, a nature reserve just south of Peterborough, there is a slightly tired-looking, cast-iron green post. When the Victorians began to drain the nearby lake of Whittlesey Mere, the local landowner, William Wells, sank the post into the peat to measure how much the dirt shrank as it dried out. In 1848 the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/flag-fen-francis-pryor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flag Fen&#8217;s Francis Pryor and The Making of the British Landscape&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-colour","category-bbc-radio-peterborough"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}