{"id":393,"date":"2009-05-12T18:50:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T18:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=393"},"modified":"2010-03-22T18:51:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T18:51:03","slug":"culture-minister-launches-scottish-castles-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"Culture Minister Launches Scottish Castles Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major project to identify castles and tower-houses which could be  suitable for future restoration and development to drive economic  investment and tourism to Scotland during the current climate, was  announced by Culture Minister Michael Russell today (Sunday, 3 May) at  newly restored Barholm Castle. \u00a0The initiative, being taken forward by  Historic Scotland and the first of its kind to be prepared by the  Scottish Government, aims to encourage financial investment in and  refurbishment of Scotland\u2019s built heritage during the economic downturn.  It will also provide advice on process, good practices and exemplars of  similar projects in the past with the aim of re-using and revitalising  existing buildings.<br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/www.historic-scotland.gov.uk\/index\/news\/news_article.htm?articleid=22988\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historic-scotland.gov.uk\/index\/news\/news_article.htm?articleid=22988\">http:\/\/www.historic-scotland.gov.uk\/index\/news\/news_article.htm?articleid=22988<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major project to identify castles and tower-houses which could be suitable for future restoration and development to drive economic investment and tourism to Scotland during the current climate, was announced by Culture Minister Michael Russell today (Sunday, 3 May) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=393\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}