{"id":2613,"date":"2020-01-23T10:25:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T10:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2020-01-23T10:25:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T10:25:32","slug":"burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2020\/01\/23\/burns\/","title":{"rendered":"Burns"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_175\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-175\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/09\/bagpipe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-175\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/09\/bagpipe-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/09\/bagpipe-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/09\/bagpipe-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/09\/bagpipe.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the bagpipes in our collection at St Cecilia&#8217;s. Picture taken by me in the room. No rights reserved by me. http:\/\/www.stcecilias.ed.ac.uk\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s that time of year <a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2017\/01\/29\/scottish-pussy\/\">again<\/a>. I&#8217;m looking forward to an evening of poetry, haggis and song with good friends.<\/p>\n<p>My favourite contemporary of Robert Burns is <a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2019\/09\/19\/mary-somerville-data-centre\/\">Mary Somerville<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mary had a much loved uncle who was keen on punning.\u00a0 Burns publicly made fun of Mary&#8217;s uncle&#8217;s punning and the uncle never punned again.<\/p>\n<p>Burns, possibly a bit of an arse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again. I&#8217;m looking forward to an evening of poetry, haggis and song with good friends. My favourite contemporary of Robert Burns is Mary Somerville. Mary had a much loved uncle who was keen on punning.\u00a0 Burns publicly made fun of Mary&#8217;s uncle&#8217;s punning and the uncle never punned again. Burns, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[264,202,379],"class_list":["post-2613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eople-place-work","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-puns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2614,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions\/2614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}