{"id":37695,"date":"2013-09-23T12:04:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T16:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37695"},"modified":"2013-09-23T12:05:10","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T16:05:10","slug":"embracing-your-inner-scot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37695","title":{"rendered":"Embracing your inner Scot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As one of our noted geneaologists has noted of late, I am a mixed breed anglo mongrel of inferior genes.  That last part is highly debateable, but I am Scottish and Irish.  I tend to embrace the Irish side for some reason I can&#8217;t quite figure out except that they have a day of drinking devoted to them, and that always seems good.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, a buddy on Facebook was noting this weekend that he went to some Highland Games in NH this weekend, and saw my favorite Scottish band.  As I&#8217;ve always said, if you only see one band all year that has four drummers and one bagpiper, make it Albannach.  Just how much do they rock?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6VWxv5pJR88\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, there seem to be a ton of these Highland Games going on right now.  My friend The Sniper took part in one a few weeks ago.  Here he is throwing a hammer or somesuch thing.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=37696\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37696\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sniper.jpg\" alt=\"sniper\" width=\"416\" height=\"513\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sniper.jpg 416w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sniper-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sniper-270x333.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, he also tossed a caber, and it hurt so much listening to him tell the story that I went home and chewed 3 percosets.  Anyway, he was also telling me how the Highland Games are embracing wounded servicemembers.  He told me of a double amputee that was tossing around the telephone poles.<\/p>\n<p>That takes some serious stones, no?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As one of our noted geneaologists has noted of late, I am a mixed breed anglo &hellip; <a title=\"Embracing your inner Scot\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37695\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Embracing your inner Scot<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}