{"id":162,"date":"2007-08-28T06:25:28","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T18:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2007\/08\/28\/stirling\/"},"modified":"2007-08-28T06:25:28","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T18:25:28","slug":"stirling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2007\/08\/28\/stirling\/","title":{"rendered":"Stirling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/uk2007-stirling\/IMG_1721\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/albums\/uk2007-stirling\/IMG_1721.thumb.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"113\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a>Everything I know about Scottish history to this point I learnt from Braveheart, or from our mate Robin at Crichton Castle.  Stirling Bridge was where William Wallace beat the English, although the movie forgot to mention a bridge. Stirling itself is right on the edge of the highlands, and it's said \"he who controls Stirling, controls Scotland.\"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/uk2007-stirling\/IMG_1736\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/albums\/uk2007-stirling\/IMG_1736.thumb.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"113\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a>Highlights of the castle included the tapestries (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Indiana_Jones\">This is a castle, isn't it? You have to have tapestries!<\/a>) of a unicorn hunt, which are being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historic-scotland.gov.uk\/stirling_tapestries_factsheet_hunt_of_the_unicorn\">painstakingly recreated<\/a> from 15th century originals, in a multi-decade project.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/uk2007-stirling\/00585_G\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/albums\/uk2007-stirling\/00585_G.thumb.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"113\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a>We also got to sit in the chairs where the King and Queen would sit in the Great Hall, before the closing of the castle cut our day short.<\/p>\n<p>Some backtracking was required as Calendar was out of goat-food, and then our trip continued towards the West Highlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything I know about Scottish history to this point I learnt from Braveheart, or from our mate Robin at Crichton Castle. Stirling Bridge was where William Wallace beat the English, although the movie forgot to mention a bridge. Stirling itself is right on the edge of the highlands, and it's said \"he who controls Stirling, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67],"tags":[58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}