{"id":15295,"date":"2014-03-14T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2014\/03\/14\/hamish-ogroats\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:11","slug":"hamish-ogroats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2014\/03\/14\/hamish-ogroats\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamish O\u2019Groats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I drove to John O&#8217;Groats &#8212; the longest trip I&#8217;ve made on my own so far.<span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"480\" id=\"blogsy-1394818935220.6304\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1408\/hamish-ogroats03.gif\" width=\"480\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>I worked in the Storehouse caf\u00e9 there, looking out at the abandoned isle of Stroma past the Overlook Hotel (I don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s actually called; I&#8217;ll always think of it as the hotel from <em>The Shining<\/em>).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"480\" id=\"blogsy-1394818935212.5574\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1408\/hamish-ogroats13.gif\" width=\"480\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>I sat next to the fire&#8221;&brvbar;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\">\n<figure class=\"alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"240\" id=\"blogsy-1394818935195.726\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1408\/hamish-ogroats23.gif\" width=\"240\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;&brvbar;where I did some thinking and scheming.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-SQ-60QO8_YQ\/UyM1o0ikveI\/AAAAAAAAG6c\/QvY6xLzBwoA\/s741\/Photo%25252020140314050017%252520pm.jpg.webp\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"317\" id=\"blogsy-1394818935184.7148\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1408\/hamish-ogroats33.jpg.webp\" width=\"500\"><\/figure>\n<p><\/a><span> <\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Then I drove back to Wick and continued my work on a big Strategic Coach project, something I can&#8217;t finish in one go. I find those challenging &#8212; but it&#8217;s just <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bluma_Zeigarnik\" title=\"The Ziegarnik Effect\">The Ziegarnik Effect<\/a>.<span> <\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I drove to John O&#8217;Groats &#8212; the longest trip I&#8217;ve made on my own so far. I worked in the Storehouse caf\u00e9 there, looking out at the abandoned isle of Stroma past the Overlook Hotel (I don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s actually called; I&#8217;ll always think of it as the hotel from The Shining). I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}