{"id":1774,"date":"2009-07-09T21:50:49","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T21:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/2009\/07\/shaws-corner-at-ayot-st-lawrence\/"},"modified":"2009-07-09T21:50:49","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T21:50:49","slug":"shaws-corner-at-ayot-st-lawrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/?p=1774","title":{"rendered":"Shaw&#8217;s Corner, at Ayot St Lawrence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On a balmy summer&#39;s day (the day of the men&#39;s final at Wimbledon) we ventured back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltrust.org.uk\/main\/w-shawscorner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shaw&#39;s Corner<\/a> for a stroll around its beautifully relaxed gardens. This is where playwright George Bernard Shaw lived for over 40 years. The house and gardens aren&#39;t huge, but I like their style &#8211; lazy, slow, ambling and pleasant. Lawns, shady paths, vibrant flowerbeds, meadowy orchards, languid trees, and all kept in a not-too-formal style that sees the stresses ooze out of me.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>I only had my macro lens, so no sweeping panoramas &#8211; you&#39;ll have to take my word for it on the descriptions above, or visit the National Trust page I&#39;ve linked to for that sort of thing.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e01588834011570f25d16970c\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ShawsCorner 7618\" class=\"at-xid-6a00e5550e01588834011570f25d16970c \" src=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e01588834011570f25d16970c-400wi\" style=\"width: 400px; \" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e01588834011571e70c90970b\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ShawsCornerGreenery 7620\" class=\"at-xid-6a00e5550e01588834011571e70c90970b \" src=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e01588834011571e70c90970b-400wi\" style=\"width: 400px; \" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">This is a slightly frayed Comma butterfly, amidst the meadowy flowers and grasses.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e01588834011571e70d20970b\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ShawsCornerCommaButterfly 7619\" class=\"at-xid-6a00e5550e01588834011571e70d20970b \" src=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e01588834011571e70d20970b-400wi\" style=\"width: 400px; \" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a balmy summer&#39;s day (the day of the men&#39;s final at Wimbledon) we ventured back to Shaw&#39;s Corner for a stroll around its beautifully relaxed gardens. This is where playwright George Bernard Shaw lived for over 40 years. The house and gardens aren&#39;t huge, but I like their style &#8211; lazy, slow, ambling and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photography","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}