{"id":171,"date":"2010-07-22T00:33:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T00:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.librairc.net\/wordpress\/?p=171"},"modified":"2010-07-22T00:45:53","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T00:45:53","slug":"scottish-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/scottish-quotes","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Thirty million, mostly fools.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li>Writer and economist Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), responding to a question on the size of the population of England.<\/li>\n<blockquote><p>For we have three great avantages;<br \/>\nThe first is, we have the richt,<br \/>\nAnd for the richt ilk man should ficht,<br \/>\nThe tother is, they are comin here&#8230;<br \/>\nTo seek us in our awn land&#8230;<br \/>\nThe third is that we for our livis<br \/>\nAnd for our childer and our wifis<br \/>\nAnd for the fredome of our land<br \/>\nAre strenyeit in battle for to stand<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li>William Barbour, in his epic poem &#8220;The Bruce&#8221;<\/li>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li>Benjamin Franklin<\/li>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be a happy ending &#8211; though he still gets hung, drawn and quartered.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li>Mel Gibson previewing the film &#8220;Braveheart&#8221; <\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Thirty million, mostly fools.&#8221; Writer and economist Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), responding to a question on the size of the population of England. For we have three great avantages; The first is, we have the richt, And for the richt ilk man should ficht, The tother is, they are comin here&#8230; To seek us in our&nbsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}