{"id":2,"date":"2014-05-28T08:58:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T08:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.croesorbach.co.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2020-09-03T20:39:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T20:39:37","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.croesorbach.co.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We bought Croesor Bach back in 1996. \u00a0I can still remember the sense of complete astonishment when we finally completed: we could hardly believe that we had managed to buy a perfectly traditional farmhouse in such a beautiful location. \u00a0This was, though tempered with the realisation that it needed a great deal of decoration and refurbishment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.croesorbach.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/04-IMG_0468-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"04-IMG_0468\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.croesorbach.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/04-IMG_0468-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.croesorbach.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/04-IMG_0468.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We could also hardly believe that it had been on the market for eighteen months: why had nobody else bought it? \u00a0We can only accept what the estate agent told us: that rural houses look lovely but what people really want is the comfort of living in a village, with all the amenities to hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Since then we seem to have been almost continuously improving one aspect or another.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sally and I were drawn back to Wales by childhood memories of holidays dabbling in streams, scrambling up mountains and chasing steam trains. \u00a0 We would like to think that we have helped a new generation of children, and their parents too maybe, to experience this magical region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What this website cannot do is give a sense of the aural soundscape \u2013 the silence, broken only by the gentle noises from the stream running all the way down the valley, the occasional sheep, sometimes a cuckoo, and the distant tooting of Ffestiniog railway steam trains. \u00a0There are no streetlights anywhere nearby, so the nights are often wonderfully starry too.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We bought Croesor Bach back in 1996. \u00a0I can still remember the sense of complete astonishment when we finally completed: we could hardly believe that we had managed to buy a perfectly traditional farmhouse in such a beautiful location. \u00a0This was, though tempered with the realisation that it needed a great deal of decoration and refurbishment.\u00a0 We could also hardly believe that it had been on the market for eighteen months: why had nobody else bought it? \u00a0We can only accept what the estate agent told us: that rural houses look lovely but what people really want is the comfort of living in a village, with all the amenities to hand. Since then we seem to have been almost continuously improving one aspect or another.\u00a0 Sally and I were drawn back to Wales by childhood memories of holidays dabbling in streams, scrambling up mountains and chasing steam trains. \u00a0 We would like to think that we have helped a new generation of children, and their parents too maybe, to experience this magical region. What this website cannot do is give a sense of the aural soundscape \u2013 the silence, broken only by the gentle noises from the stream running all the way down the valley, the occasional sheep, sometimes a cuckoo, and the distant tooting of Ffestiniog railway steam trains. \u00a0There are no streetlights anywhere nearby, so the nights are often wonderfully starry too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.croesorbach.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.croesorbach.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.croesorbach.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.croesorbach.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.croesorbach.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.croesorbach.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/www.croesorbach.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.croesorbach.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}