{"id":730,"date":"2018-04-23T17:01:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T21:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/?p=730"},"modified":"2018-04-23T17:01:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T21:01:21","slug":"random-musings-from-my-trip-to-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/?p=730","title":{"rendered":"Random Musings from my trip to Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The airport in Dublin had poetry on the walls. Yeats. Yes, Yeats on an airport wall.<\/li>\n<li>There is always someone playing bagpipes on The Royal Mile in Edinburgh. Always.<\/li>\n<li>Military time is standard. \u201cLunch specials 1200-1500.\u201d Finally I\u2019m not the only one.<\/li>\n<li>Walking the streets around the Greyfriar Cemetery, it is obvious the area inspired many ideas for JK Rowling.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glen_Coe\">Glencoe<\/a> is so beautiful it does not seem real. (photo above)<\/li>\n<li>Learned the origin of the phrase, \u201carmed to the teeth.\u201d It is actually \u201carmed to the Teith [river],\u201d the point where highlanders were disarmed before entering the town of Doune. Doune is also home to the castle featured in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.<\/li>\n<li>The view from Arthur\u2019s Seat, an ancient volcano, is breathtaking and worth the hike. (photo below)<\/li>\n<li>I sampled about 30 varieties of Scotch whisky. They were all delightful, but my favorite was Craigellachie, a Speyside single malt aged 13 years.<\/li>\n<li>I didn\u2019t write nearly as much as I had hoped, but the long flights allowed me to finish reading 2.5 books.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/arthurs-seat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-729 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/arthurs-seat-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/arthurs-seat-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/arthurs-seat-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/arthurs-seat-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/arthurs-seat-676x451.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=durk13\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The airport in Dublin had poetry on the walls. Yeats. Yes, Yeats on an airport wall. There is always someone playing bagpipes on The Royal Mile in Edinburgh. Always. Military time is standard. \u201cLunch specials 1200-1500.\u201d Finally I\u2019m not the only one. Walking the streets around the Greyfriar Cemetery, it is obvious the area inspired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellany-entertainment","category-musings","category-writery-things"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}