{"id":22421,"date":"2016-04-08T23:33:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T06:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22421"},"modified":"2016-04-08T23:33:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T06:33:44","slug":"scots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/scots\/","title":{"rendered":"Fierce Scots Compete in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/kernsco.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scots travel throughout California\u00a0to\u00a0participate\u00a0in games, music, dance, foods and history\u00a0of their\u00a0proud culture and people known as fierce defenders of their lands. Advice to 13th century Norse travelers making the journey to Scotland: &#8220;Icelanders who want to practice robbery are advised to go there &#8230; but it may cost them their life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vikings did penetrate and move into areas of Scotland as evidenced by Scottish clans with direct Viking (Norse) descent such as Clan MacDonald of the Isles, Clan MacLeod, Clan MacQueen and MacAulay.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see determined Scots,\u00a0watch\u00a0them\u00a0compete in caber toss, hammer toss or stone throw at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/bakersfield-kern-scottish.html\">Kern County Scottish Games &amp; Gatherin<\/a>g in Bakersfield\u00a0and upcoming\u00a0events\u00a0in Woodland, Costa Mesa, San Diego and Monterey. Scotland \u00a0is approx. 5,100 miles away\u00a0while a trip to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-scottish-festivals.html\">Scottish festival in Califoria<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0a stone&#8217;s throw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scots travel throughout California\u00a0to\u00a0participate\u00a0in games, music, dance, foods and history\u00a0of their\u00a0proud culture and people known as fierce defenders of their lands. Advice to 13th century Norse travelers making the journey to Scotland: &#8220;Icelanders who want to practice robbery are advised to go there &#8230; but it may cost them their life.&#8221; Vikings did penetrate and [&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\/22421"}],"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=22421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}