{"id":299,"date":"2014-12-29T03:16:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T03:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/?p=299"},"modified":"2016-02-29T04:08:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T04:08:52","slug":"bof-iii-keybeards-and-bagpopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2014\/12\/29\/bof-iii-keybeards-and-bagpopes\/","title":{"rendered":"BoF III: Keybeards and Bagpopes:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S Writes:<br \/>\n\u201cBut see, if they play the pipes near other people, they&#8217;ll be arrested.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cArrested? By whom?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201c&#8230; by the Scottish bagpipe police?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cPiffle! No such thing! In fact, there is a Scottish bagpipe brigade whose job it is to ensure that the pipes are played often and loudly. They must conform to the exacting standards set forth by the&#8230;\u201d<br \/>\n(at this point, B blows up my pantleg, and I pause.)<br \/>\n\u201c&#8230; Bagpope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Bag Pope?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine the mass! Every parishioner plays the pipes, and the church has to be burned to the ground after every service.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWait, why? Does it seep into the stones?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIT IS RUINED.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S Writes: \u201cBut see, if they play the pipes near other people, they&#8217;ll be arrested.\u201d \u201cArrested? By whom?\u201d \u201c&#8230; by the Scottish bagpipe police?\u201d \u201cPiffle! No such thing! In fact, there is a Scottish bagpipe brigade whose job it is to ensure that the pipes are played often and loudly. They must conform to the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2014\/12\/29\/bof-iii-keybeards-and-bagpopes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BoF III: Keybeards and Bagpopes:<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,7,24,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1077,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}