{"id":1662,"date":"2009-01-01T12:38:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T12:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/01\/happy-hogmanay-from-scotland\/"},"modified":"2009-01-01T23:28:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T23:28:48","slug":"happy-hogmanay-from-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/01\/happy-hogmanay-from-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Hogmanay From Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edinburgh is rightly world famous for its Hogmanay celebrations to see in the New Year. Lots of people (mostly ex-pats) have asked me if I was heading into town for The Bells.<\/p>\n<p>Actually I did that years ago many times; now I just stand in the living room window, with a view of the Castle and the fireworks in something that wasn\u2019t approaching freeing. So if you want to share the fireworks, then bring a 16 year old malt next year.<\/p>\n<p>But for now, this is what you missed\u2026<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/chBv-3X70J8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Sl\u00e1inte!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edinburgh is rightly world famous for its Hogmanay celebrations to see in the New Year. Lots of people (mostly ex-pats) have asked me if I was heading into town for The Bells. Actually I did that years ago many times; now I just stand in the living room window, with a view of the Castle and the fireworks in something that wasn\u2019t approaching freeing. So if you want to share the fireworks, then bring a 16 year old malt next year. But for now, this is what you missed\u2026 &#160; Sl\u00e1inte!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2,26],"tags":[377,567,570,565,225,566,569,79,568],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-multimedia","tag-edinburgh","tag-fireworks","tag-flower-of-scotland","tag-hogmanay","tag-music","tag-new-year","tag-the-corries","tag-video","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-qO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}