{"id":23898,"date":"2017-02-07T15:36:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T23:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23898"},"modified":"2017-02-07T15:36:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T23:36:13","slug":"scottish-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/scottish-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Showing Off Scottish Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/scoque.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"649\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>Covering the Queen Mary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/long-beach-scottish-festival.html\">ScotsFestival<\/a> February 18-19, and other such events in California throughout the year is fun but poses a challenge.\u00a0Being a proud Scotsman without an accent is like being a baseball player without a glove or a football athlete without strength. I possess a Scottish name and my ancestors were famous warriors going back in time. But what I lack most is an accent or dialect. No matter if I&#8217;m in a Scottish kilt complete with bagpipe, without the accent, I&#8217;m just not capturing the proper flavor of the old country.<\/p>\n<p>Bless the Internet. I recently discovered how to speak in a Scottish accent,\u00a0thanks to\u00a0illustrations on wikihow.com. Youtube videos also demonstrates Scots speaking.<\/p>\n<p>Many proud Scots without brogue have made a name for themselves&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/culture\/scottish-pride.html\">read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By C. MacDonald Covering the Queen Mary ScotsFestival February 18-19, and other such events in California throughout the year is fun but poses a challenge.\u00a0Being a proud Scotsman without an accent is like being a baseball player without a glove or a football athlete without strength. I possess a Scottish name and my ancestors were [&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\/23898"}],"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=23898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}