{"id":170,"date":"2008-12-03T21:54:36","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T20:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2009-05-13T19:09:28","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T18:09:28","slug":"st-andrews-day-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/archives\/170","title":{"rendered":"St Andrew&#8217;s Day Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_444\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-444\" style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/loch-lomond.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-444\" title=\"Loch Lomond\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/loch-lomond-640x253.jpg\" alt=\"Loch Lomond\" width=\"576\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/loch-lomond-640x253.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/loch-lomond-768x304.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/loch-lomond.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loch Lomond<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joscelyn (8 years old) came home with an assignment to write a poem about Scotland because it was near St Andrew&#8217;s day. The instructions on what was required were a bit confusing. She has a piece of paper with SCOTLAND written vertically down the edge so each line began with a letter. She had to write something Scottish on each line with a describing word. It is difficult to do it &#8220;properly&#8221; but fun if you relax the rules. Here is what dad came up with while cooking tea. We are debating whether to send it to school as Joscelyn&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>S<\/strong>erious surfs<br \/>\n<strong>C<\/strong>razy Ceilidhs<br \/>\n<strong>O<\/strong>verly audacious<br \/>\n<strong>T<\/strong>artan Traversed<br \/>\n<strong>L<\/strong>ochs and Lavies<br \/>\n<strong>A<\/strong>tlantic Antlers reach<br \/>\n<strong>N<\/strong>early to the North Sea<br \/>\n<strong>D<\/strong>undee; Cake of Kings<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Surely a poem almost as worthy as those by the great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryofscotland.co.uk\/Mcgonagall\/mcgonagallhome.php\">William Topaz McGonagall<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joscelyn (8 years old) came home with an assignment to write a poem about Scotland because it was near St Andrew&#8217;s day. The instructions on what was required were a bit confusing. She has a piece of paper with SCOTLAND written vertically down the edge so each line began with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}