{"id":1857,"date":"2010-02-05T13:36:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T17:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fairies.jpg"},"modified":"2010-02-05T13:36:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T17:36:50","slug":"fairies","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2010\/02\/05\/petrified-faerie\/fairies\/","title":{"rendered":"fairies"},"author":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"description":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href='https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fairies.jpg'><img width=\"300\" height=\"223\" src=\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fairies-300x223.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fairies-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fairies.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marcus Salter, head of Genesis Properties, estimates that the small colony of fairies believed to live beneath a rock in St Fillans, Perthshire, has cost him \u00a315,000. His first notice of the residential sensibilities of the netherworld came as his diggers moved on to a site on the outskirts of the village, which crowns the easterly shore of Loch Earn.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cA neighbour came over shouting, \u2018Don\u2019t move that rock. You\u2019ll kill the fairies\u2019.\u201d The rock protruded from the centre of a gently shelving field, edged by the steep slopes of Dundurn mountain, where in the sixth century the Celtic missionary St Fillan set up camp and attempted to convert the Picts from the pagan darkness of superstition. <\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p>Marcus Salter, head of Genesis Properties, estimates that the small colony of fairies believed to live beneath a rock in St Fillans, Perthshire, has cost him \u00a315,000. His first notice of the residential sensibilities of the netherworld came as his diggers moved on to a site on the outskirts of the village, which crowns the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2010\/02\/05\/petrified-faerie\/fairies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;fairies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":"375","height":"279","hwstring_small":"height='95' width='128'","file":"2010\/02\/fairies.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"fairies-150x150.jpg","width":"150","height":"150","source_url":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fairies-150x150.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"fairies-300x223.jpg","width":"300","height":"223","source_url":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fairies-300x223.jpg"},"full":{"file":"fairies.jpg","width":375,"height":279,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fairies.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}},"post":1856,"source_url":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fairies.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1857"}]}}