{"id":1125,"date":"2012-12-14T20:54:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T20:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2014-12-08T15:23:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T15:23:58","slug":"the-grantham-canal-hike-one-for-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/2012\/12\/the-grantham-canal-hike-one-for-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grantham Canal hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Known in its day as &#8216;the romantic canal&#8217;, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grantham_Canal\">Grantham Canal<\/a> runs for 35 miles from Grantham to Nottingham. \u00a0Closed in 1936, the sterling work of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.granthamcanal.org\/\">Grantham Canal Society<\/a> is slowly bring the waterway back to life.<\/p>\n<p>I love canal walking and by happy coincidence the Grantham Canal makes up a stage of my heroic <a title=\"Hit the North!\" href=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/2012\/09\/hit-the-north\/\">Hit the North expedition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, the idea is to take three days in the spring and walk the route from Nottingham to Grantham with two nights wild camping on the way (using my lovely new camping hammock).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1126\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1126\" style=\"width: 568px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Grantham-Canal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1126 \" title=\"Map of the route of the Grantham Canal \" src=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Grantham-Canal.jpg\" alt=\"Map of the route of the Grantham Canal \" width=\"568\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Grantham-Canal.jpg 710w, https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Grantham-Canal-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Grantham-Canal-600x222.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of the route of the Grantham Canal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m really excited about this hike. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a lovely photo of the canal from Flickr by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23706621@N08\/\">mistymorning23<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1130\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1130\" style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23706621@N08\/4160368423\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1130 \" title=\"Grantham Canal\" src=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/grantham-canal-mistymorning23.jpg\" alt=\"Grantham Canal\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/grantham-canal-mistymorning23.jpg 640w, https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/grantham-canal-mistymorning23-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/grantham-canal-mistymorning23-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grantham Canal (from Flickr, by mistymorning23)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known in its day as &#8216;the romantic canal&#8217;, the Grantham Canal runs for 35 miles from Grantham to Nottingham. \u00a0Closed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[51,69,32,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2918,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/2918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}