{"id":6293,"date":"2026-01-25T16:29:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/?p=6293"},"modified":"2026-01-25T16:29:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:29:58","slug":"burns-night-a-scottish-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/25\/burns-night-a-scottish-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Burns Night, A Scottish Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Scotland-highlands-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Scotland-highlands-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Scotland-highlands-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Scotland-highlands-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Scotland-highlands-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Scotland-highlands-850x638.jpeg 850w, https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Scotland-highlands.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Scottish Highlands \u00a92025CindyThomson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In honor of Robert Burns, Scotland&#8217;s national bard (or poet) who was born on this day in 1759. He tragically only lived to be 37. He was a tenet farmer and a tax collector, but more famously a poet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without doubt, his most famous work:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For auld lang syne, my jo,<br>For auld lang syne,<br>We\u2019ll tak a cup o\u2019 kindness yet<br>For auld lang syne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go to YouTube to watch this explanation of Burns Night in Scotland. <em>(By the way, I tried haggis in Scotland. It&#8217;s not bad.)<\/em> Would you want to go to his Burns Night supper? Sounds fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"How To Host A Burns Supper - Complete Guide To Burns Night In Scotland! #RobertBurns #BurnsNight\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6PXZ3SC0JtI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Robert Burns, Scotland&#8217;s national bard (or poet) who was born on this day in 1759. He tragically only lived to be 37. He was a tenet farmer and a tax collector, but more famously a poet. Without doubt, his most famous work: For auld lang syne, my jo,For auld lang syne,We\u2019ll tak&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[630,106],"tags":[632,633,631],"class_list":["post-6293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotland","category-songs","tag-burns-night","tag-poet","tag-robert-burns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6295,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293\/revisions\/6295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}