{"id":844,"date":"2011-07-21T22:50:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T21:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/?p=844"},"modified":"2018-05-25T09:35:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T09:35:16","slug":"otters-in-the-city-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"Otters in the city centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A playful otter\u00a0\u00a0 welcomed citizens and tourists\u00a0 to John&#8217;s bridge over the last number of days.\u00a0 KKB Chairman Sean Leahy\u00a0 and Secretary Elaine Bradshaw both joined the public along the river.\u00a0 Elaine who\u00a0 followed the movements of the otter spotted it catching\u00a0 a fresh Nore fish.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_796\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/july-8-2011-011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-796\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-796\" title=\"july 8 2011 011\" src=\"https:\/\/keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/july-8-2011-011-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/july-8-2011-011-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/july-8-2011-011.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View of river Nore accross to library. Kilkenny 400 apple tree in foreground. copyright: Keep Kilkenny Beautiful.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Irish name for otter is <em>madra uisce<\/em>&#8221; river dog&#8221;.\u00a0 The KKB welcomes the return of otters to the city centre area. There is\u00a0 improved\u00a0 natural cover along\u00a0 the river Nore\u00a0 banks over the last number of years.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_779\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/july-8-2011-0091.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-779\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-779\" title=\"july 8 2011 009\" src=\"https:\/\/keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/july-8-2011-0091-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/july-8-2011-0091-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/july-8-2011-0091.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-779\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John&#39;s Bridge and Kilkenny Castle. Copyright : Keep Kilkenny Beautiful.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A playful otter\u00a0\u00a0 welcomed citizens and tourists\u00a0 to John&#8217;s bridge over the last number of days.\u00a0 KKB Chairman Sean Leahy\u00a0 and Secretary Elaine Bradshaw both joined the public along the river.\u00a0 Elaine who\u00a0 followed the movements of the otter spotted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/?p=844\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,10,13],"tags":[70,92,221,307,352,389,404,428],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biodiversity","category-kilkenny-city","category-news","category-wildlife","tag-biodiversity-2","tag-bridge","tag-fish","tag-johns-bridge","tag-madra-uisce","tag-nore","tag-otter","tag-playful"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3322,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/3322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}