{"id":120844,"date":"2022-09-15T04:30:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T04:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/country-diary-a-meat-eater-among-the-moss"},"modified":"2022-09-15T04:30:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T04:30:20","slug":"country-diary-a-meat-eater-among-the-moss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/country-diary-a-meat-eater-among-the-moss","title":{"rendered":"Country diary: A meat-eater among the moss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia). Photograph: Phil Gates When I moved to rural Somerset from India seven years ago, hunting for carnivores wasn&#8217;t high on my list of things to do. And yet yesterday I set out with my brother, an OS map and some sketchy instructions in a text from a friend. We spent a good few hours foraging through the heather, picking our way around gorse, scrambling around in bracken, discovering that it&#8217;s hard to find what you&#8217;re not sure you&#8217;re looking for. We came back, muddy and empty-handed. So I arranged to meet in the same place with the friend whose message had prompted this botanical safari. We climb up a rocky pathway and then descend an escarpment on the other side. At one point, my friend veers off the track and I follow, clambering through a knee-high thicket of heather and gorse. The hillside is a pixelated blanket of many colours &#8211; flaming orange spikelets of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackdown Hills, Somerset-Devon border: We&#8217;re slurping through the bog, in search of a jewelled carnivore with a sunny name<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,101],"tags":[6,102],"class_list":["post-120844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-lifestyle","tag-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}