{"id":589,"date":"2007-04-06T05:13:16","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T11:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/04\/06\/if-its-nae-scots-its-crap-especially-today\/"},"modified":"2007-04-06T08:07:45","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T14:07:45","slug":"if-its-nae-scots-its-crap-especially-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=589","title":{"rendered":"If It&#8217;s Nae Scots, It&#8217;s Crap. Especially Today."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Scots in America don&#8217;t have a national holiday that enshrines mass public drunkenness and projectile vomiting, we do have &#8211; for the last nine years, anyway &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tartan_Day\">Tartan Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"287\" src=\"http:\/\/wwp.scotland-uk.org\/images\/flag-of-scotland.jpg\" width=\"431\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Wikipedia&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;took root in the United States and since 1998, the date of April 6 has been officially recognised by the United States Senate as a celebration of the contribution made by generations of Scots-Americans to the foundation and prosperity of modern America.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"412\" src=\"http:\/\/www.andrys.com\/scotland.jpg\" width=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The date is significant as it commemorates the signing of the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320, the first known formal Declaration of independence. Not only was the United States Declaration of Independence modelled on that document, but almost half of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were of Scottish descent and the Governors in 9 of the original 13 States were of Scottish ancestry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So tack a &#8220;Mac-&#8221; onto the front of your name, quaff a couple shots of Laphroaig, paint your face blue and moon your boss today &#8211; he can take your job, be he canna take your freedom!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.montrealfilmjournal.com\/dat\/pic\/M0000081.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Play bagpipe music, or at least Big Country, Simple Minds and the Proclaimers, in your cube.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"297\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clancurrie.com\/images\/pictures\/press\/2006_jan3\/Black-Watch1.jpg\" width=\"279\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"156\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/totp2\/vote\/images\/big_country.jpg\" width=\"259\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Talk like Sean Connery. Eat a burrito, but call it haggis just to see the reactions you get.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"282\" src=\"http:\/\/www.genx40.com\/images\/2005f\/scots.JPG\" width=\"454\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Save a nickel, rather than spending it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Tartan Day. You deserve it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Scots in America don&#8217;t have a national holiday that enshrines mass public drunkenness and projectile vomiting, we do have &#8211; for the last nine years, anyway &#8211; Tartan Day. According to Wikipedia&#8230;: &#8230;took root in the United States and since 1998, the date of April 6 has been officially recognised by the United States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}