{"id":512,"date":"2008-01-26T16:40:34","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T23:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=512"},"modified":"2008-01-26T16:40:34","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T23:40:34","slug":"taking-a-break-from-writing-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"Taking a break from writing papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I&#8217;m heading to the Fort Rd. pub for a Burn&#8217;s night supper. Scotch tasting and haggis eating is on the menu &#8211; along with lots of dancing to the amazing band <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boysofstjamesgate.ca\/\">Boys of St. James Gate<\/a>. This will be the first time I&#8217;ve seen the boys since Jimmy&#8217;s wake and I&#8217;m looking forward to a great night of music and friends.<\/p>\n<p>It amuses me to no end that my husband and former Philippines traveling companion, Paul, both wear my family tartan. Drew inherited my great-uncle Davy&#8217;s kilt, passed down from my father, and wears it proudly to many events. Paul came by his in a less traditional manner. A kilt in the tartan had been ordered by another gentleman who, upon seeing the tartan once the kilt was made, decided he didn&#8217;t like it. Paul, being ever the frugal Scot, purchased the kilt at a discounted price and occassionally rents it out when more <em>robust<\/em> individuals need a kilt for a special function.<\/p>\n<p>I was hoping to be given my dad&#8217;s kilt when my mom visited over Christmas so Drew and I could both wear the same tartan when we&#8217;re piping. As that didn&#8217;t come to fruition I&#8217;ll be leaving some room in my suitcase when I head home in spring in the hopes of filling it before I fly back to Edmonton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I&#8217;m heading to the Fort Rd. pub for a Burn&#8217;s night supper. Scotch tasting and haggis eating is on the menu &#8211; along with lots of dancing to the amazing band Boys of St. James Gate. This will be the first time I&#8217;ve seen the boys since Jimmy&#8217;s wake and I&#8217;m looking forward to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-vittles-beer","category-friends-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}