{"id":58483,"date":"2019-04-06T05:59:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T10:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=58483"},"modified":"2019-04-03T13:58:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T18:58:56","slug":"caledonian-strangeness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/caledonian-strangeness\/","title":{"rendered":"Caledonian strangeness"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-58483-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-Weird-Piper.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-Weird-Piper.mp3\">http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-Weird-Piper.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tartan_Day\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tartan Day<\/a> in North America. (In Australia, it&#8217;s July 1.) Here&#8217;s a medley of melodies that were once Scottish: &#8220;The Piper&#8217;s Weird,&#8221; &#8220;Bonnie Thackit Hoosie,&#8221; &#8220;Marnock&#8217;s Strathspey&#8221; and &#8220;Mackenzie Highlanders.&#8221; I don&#8217;t have a good set of bagpipes on my computer, so I had to make do with other virtual instruments. That may or may not disappoint you. The first two tunes are from James Scott Skinner&#8217;s collection <i><b>The Harp and Claymore<\/b><\/i>. Skinner uses &#8220;weird&#8221; here in the sense of &#8220;destiny&#8221; or &#8220;fate,&#8221; though the more common meaning may also apply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Tartan Day in North America. (In Australia, it&#8217;s July 1.) Here&#8217;s a medley of melodies that were once Scottish: &#8220;The Piper&#8217;s Weird,&#8221; &#8220;Bonnie Thackit Hoosie,&#8221; &#8220;Marnock&#8217;s Strathspey&#8221; and &#8220;Mackenzie Highlanders.&#8221; I don&#8217;t have a good set of bagpipes on my computer, so I had to make do with other virtual instruments. That may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/caledonian-strangeness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Caledonian strangeness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-fdh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58483"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58671,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58483\/revisions\/58671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}