{"id":320,"date":"2020-01-18T22:09:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T22:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/?p=320"},"modified":"2022-10-30T18:45:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T18:45:19","slug":"pot-bellied-oak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"pot bellied oak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A muddy trip to Savernake forest in Wiltshire to search for veteran  trees. This pot bellied oak is believed to be around 1100 years old . Once in the middle of a vast forest, its now on the verge of the A346 which is a fast and twisting road towards Burbage and Salisbury and cuts through the south-eastern flank of this heavily wooded area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DSC06106-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DSC06106-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DSC06106-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DSC06106-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DSC06106-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DSC06106-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DSC06106.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The tree was secured with a iron girdle about 20 years ago by the forestry commission to stop it splitting into two. I think it looks pretty angry with its current location!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It took me about a hour to search for the tree, on muddy forest tracks. I stopped at the car park by the campsite and explored on a electric mountain bike with the help of a local ordnance survey map and aided by the lack of vegetation at this time of year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A muddy trip to Savernake forest in Wiltshire to search for veteran trees. This pot bellied oak is believed to be around 1100 years old . Once in the middle of a vast forest, its now on the verge of the A346 which is a fast and twisting road towards Burbage and Salisbury and cuts&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/?p=320\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">pot bellied oak<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasstronaut.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}