{"id":982,"date":"2016-09-22T22:26:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T22:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irishgreypartridge.com\/?p=982"},"modified":"2019-11-07T14:58:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T14:58:24","slug":"his-excellency-president-michael-d-higgins-his-wife-sabina-visit-the-grey-partridge-conservation-project-stand-at-the-national-ploughing-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greypartridge.ie\/?p=982","title":{"rendered":"His Excellency President Michael D Higgins &#038; his wife Sabina visit the Grey Partridge conservation project stand at the National Ploughing Championships."},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1474580379276_13364\">&nbsp;It all started&nbsp;in 1995&nbsp;when as Minister for Arts Heritage &amp; Gaeltacht, Michael D Higgins introduced legislation to legally protect Ireland&#8217;s native grey partridge.<\/p>\n<p>21 years later, as President of Ireland he re-visits the NPWS &#8211; Irish Grey Partridge Conservation Trust stand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishgreypartridge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/President-Michael-D-Higgins-visits-the-grey-partridge-stand-at-the-National-Ploughing-Championships.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-983\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irishgreypartridge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/President-Michael-D-Higgins-visits-the-grey-partridge-stand-at-the-National-Ploughing-Championships-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"President-Michael-D-Higgins-visits-the-grey-partridge-stand-at-the-National-Ploughing-Championships\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greypartridge.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/President-Michael-D-Higgins-visits-the-grey-partridge-stand-at-the-National-Ploughing-Championships-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greypartridge.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/President-Michael-D-Higgins-visits-the-grey-partridge-stand-at-the-National-Ploughing-Championships-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greypartridge.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/President-Michael-D-Higgins-visits-the-grey-partridge-stand-at-the-National-Ploughing-Championships-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greypartridge.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/President-Michael-D-Higgins-visits-the-grey-partridge-stand-at-the-National-Ploughing-Championships-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;It all started&nbsp;in 1995&nbsp;when as Minister for Arts Heritage &amp; Gaeltacht, Michael D Higgins introduced legislation to legally protect Ireland&#8217;s native grey partridge. 21 years later, as President of Ireland&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greypartridge.ie\/?p=982\">Continue Reading<span> His Excellency President Michael D Higgins &#038; his wife Sabina visit the Grey Partridge conservation project stand at the National Ploughing Championships.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,2,24,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-grey-partridge","category-ploughing","category-trust-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greypartridge.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greypartridge.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greypartridge.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greypartridge.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greypartridge.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greypartridge.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1867,"href":"https:\/\/www.greypartridge.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/1867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greypartridge.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greypartridge.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greypartridge.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greypartridge.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}