{"id":7063,"date":"2006-01-01T17:21:08","date_gmt":"2006-01-02T00:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=7063"},"modified":"2020-06-19T22:47:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T02:47:11","slug":"hogmanay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=7063","title":{"rendered":"Hogmanay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hogmanay (hog-muh-NAY) is the Scottish New Year celebration and every year in Edinburgh there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/scotland\/4570640.stm\">huge party<\/a> on Dec 31st.<\/p>\n<p>The shortbread that I mentioned a few days ago was baked for Hogmanay &#8212; to give to the neighbours. In Scotland, it is tradition to go from house to house on the cusp of the New Year and give out shortbread cakes.<\/p>\n<p>We received some shortbread from Rob the Neighbour; shortbread that managed to find its way into the belly of the dogs. I don&#8217;t know how they got it from the &#8220;hard to get to&#8221; part of the counter; but, they did. They must have worked out a strategy where one dog stood on the back of the other and balanced precariously whilst reaching for the shortbread.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever they did, it was successful and they had a New Year&#8217;s Eve treat while we were at the Festival of Lights celebration in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airdrie.ca\/index.cfm\">Airdrie<\/a>. I have to say that the people of Airdrie certainly know how to party; not as much as the people in Scotland &#8212; but more than I expected.<\/p>\n<p>I think all of Calgary was there too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nHogmanay (hog-muh-NAY) is the Scottish New Year celebration and every year in&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=7063\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Hogmanay&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,475,16],"tags":[501],"class_list":["post-7063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alberta","category-calgary","category-canada","tag-uniquely-alberta","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7063"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92713,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063\/revisions\/92713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}