{"id":386,"date":"2006-08-20T02:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-20T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=386"},"modified":"2010-01-10T15:50:41","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T15:50:41","slug":"au-tombeau-de-william-mcgonagall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/08\/au-tombeau-de-william-mcgonagall.html","title":{"rendered":"Au Tombeau de William McGonagall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22148797@N00\/213334637\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/mcgonagall01a.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>Beautiful city of Edinburgh!<br \/>Where the tourist can drown his sorrow<br \/>By viewing your monuments and statues fine<br \/>During the lovely summer-time.<br \/>I&#8217;m sure it will his spirits cheer<br \/>As Sir Walter Scott&#8217;s monument he draws near,<br \/>That stands in East Princes Street<br \/>Amongst flowery gardens, fine and neat.<br \/>And Edinburgh castle is magnificent to be seen<br \/>With its beautiful walks and trees so green,<br \/>Which seems like a fairy dell;<br \/>And near by its rocky basement is St. Margaret&#8217;s well,<br \/>Where the tourist can drink at when he feels dry,<br \/>And view the castle from beneath so very high,<br \/>Which seems almost towering to the sky.<br \/>*     *     *<br \/>Beautiful city of Edinburgh! the truth to express,<br \/>Your beauties are matchless I must confess,<br \/>And which no one dare gainsay,<br \/>But that you are the grandest city in Scotland at the present day!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Wm. McGonagall, &#8220;Edinburgh&#8221;, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Poetic Gems<\/span> (London: Duckworth, 1970), p.84.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beautiful city of Edinburgh!Where the tourist can drown his sorrowBy viewing your monuments and statues fineDuring the lovely summer-time.I&#8217;m sure it will his spirits cheerAs Sir Walter Scott&#8217;s monument he draws near,That stands in East Princes StreetAmongst flowery gardens, fine and neat.And Edinburgh castle is magnificent to be seenWith its beautiful walks and trees so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3539,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/3539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}