{"id":76058,"date":"2014-02-18T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=76058"},"modified":"2023-10-11T14:37:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T13:37:36","slug":"whitby-planting-the-penny-hedge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=76058","title":{"rendered":"Whitby Planting the Penny Hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Whitby-planting-the-Penny-Hedge-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76054\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Whitby-planting-the-Penny-Hedge-001.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Whitby-planting-the-Penny-Hedge-001-300x191.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Whitby-planting-the-Penny-Hedge-001-472x300.jpg 472w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Whitby-planting-the-Penny-Hedge-001-150x95.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Whitby-planting-the-Penny-Hedge-001-400x255.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A custom dating back to the reign of King Henry II; the legend says a group of noblemen were hunting wild boar in Eskdale, and slew a hermit who tried to protect the animal. The Bishop of Whitby Abbey as a penance ordered them to construct on Ascension Eve each year a hedge of wood with a penny knife to withstand three tides. Completion of the hedge was announced by blowing a horn as seen in the postcard image.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Image courtesy of Joyce Dobson &amp; Keith Bowers.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A custom dating back to the reign of King Henry II; the legend says a group of noblemen were hunting wild boar in Eskdale, and slew a hermit who tried to protect the animal. The Bishop of Whitby Abbey as a penance ordered them to construct on Ascension Eve each year a hedge [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whitby","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76060,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76058\/revisions\/76060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}