{"id":18919,"date":"2015-01-26T22:22:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T06:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=18919"},"modified":"2015-01-26T22:22:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T06:22:53","slug":"great-scots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/great-scots\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Scots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/partmals.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish have their day to celebrate on March 17 (St. Patrick&#8217;s Day). But the ultimate party animals\u00a0who\u00a0&#8216;Rock &#8216;yer\u00a0Kilt&#8217; are the\u00a0Great Scots. This year is a special one for the Caledonian Club of San Francisco when they host their 150th annual Scottish Highland Gathering &amp; Games on Sept. 5 &amp; 6, 2015. The festival\u00a0has the largest attendance of any Scottish games in the world! Starting the ball rolling in the season opener is Queen Mary&#8217;s Scots Festival Feb. 13-15. Rock Yer Kilt concert launches the weekend with bands Brick Top Blaggers, Wicked Tinkers and more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-scottish-festivals.html\">California Scottish\u00a0Festivals<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0games:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Caber Toss\u00a0&#8211; The caber (wooden beam) approx.\u00a019&#8242; 6&#8243;\u00a0tall and 175 pounds is a long tree trunk, tapered\u00a0smaller at one end. Raise the\u00a0pole to a vertical position in your\u00a0hands, smaller end down, and then throw it into the air and away from\u00a0you. Toss the caber so that it turns end over end,\u00a0falling directly away from you\u00a0in the 12 o&#8217;clock position. Distance isn&#8217;t important.<\/li>\n<li>Stone Put or Putting of the Stone &#8211; A stone weighing between 16 &amp; 26 pounds is thrown for distance.<\/li>\n<li>Weight Throw for Distance &#8211; Thrown in a field.<\/li>\n<li>Weight Throw for Height \u00a0&#8211; Thrown over a bar.<\/li>\n<li>Scottish Hammer Throw &#8211; A weight on a cane handle\u00a0or shaft is thrown for distance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Irish have their day to celebrate on March 17 (St. Patrick&#8217;s Day). But the ultimate party animals\u00a0who\u00a0&#8216;Rock &#8216;yer\u00a0Kilt&#8217; are the\u00a0Great Scots. This year is a special one for the Caledonian Club of San Francisco when they host their 150th annual Scottish Highland Gathering &amp; Games on Sept. 5 &amp; 6, 2015. The festival\u00a0has the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18919"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}