Three weeks ago we celebrated St. Patrick’s Day — the one day a year when everyone<\/i> is Irish. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Today we celebrate Tartan Day — a day where we look back upon the great things that the Scots have done for civilization.<\/p>\n
If that means hitting the back nine of a golf course, then rock on. I’m<\/i> not hitting the links; I can’t stand<\/i> golf.<\/p>\n
Tartan Day. I wrote up about it a few years ago<\/a>, and it’s still pretty valid.<\/p>\n I need to go out and pick up some Scottish Ale or something at the liquor store. Yeah, that’s the ticket. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Tartan Day! No, I’m not<\/i> going to be wearing a kilt. I don’t even own<\/i> a kilt. I will, however, listen to the Real McKenzies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Three weeks ago we celebrated St. Patrick’s Day — the one day a year when everyone is Irish. \ud83d\ude09 Today we celebrate Tartan Day — a day where we look back upon the great things that the Scots have done for civilization. If that means hitting the back nine of a golf course, then rockContinue reading “On Tartan Day”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[88,558],"class_list":["post-1346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-scotland","tag-tartan-day","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}