{"id":1594,"date":"2015-06-28T20:21:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T21:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2015-06-28T20:21:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T21:21:28","slug":"contemplating-the-bruce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1594","title":{"rendered":"Contemplating The Bruce"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"Contemplating The Bruce\" data-info-url=\"\" data-backend-url=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gft\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF1409-Edit-2.jpg\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1594\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"color\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p>I stopped off at Bannockburn on the way north on Saturday.\u00a0\u00a0 My main purpose was to look at the huge mural which Chris Rutterford (the son of my cousin, June) has painted and is now installed in the visitor centre.\u00a0 It is very impressive, \u00a0and after a bit of searching I found my face among the Scottish army there.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0few months ago I made a discovery\u00a0while doing some family history research.\u00a0\u00a0Much to my surprise it turns out that\u00a0June and I\u00a0are related to King Robert the Bruce, through our grandfather&#8217;s family!\u00a0\u00a0 Not that that impressed the dogs any.\u00a0 They were more than content to romp about on the grassy area round the stature of King Robert,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 though Lily did take a moment or two to quietly contemplate\u00a0The Bruce.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF1409-Edit-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1593\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF1409-Edit-2.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF1409-Edit-2\" width=\"667\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF1409-Edit-2.jpg 667w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF1409-Edit-2-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCF1409-Edit-2-624x936.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped off at Bannockburn on the way north on Saturday.\u00a0\u00a0 My main purpose was to look at the huge mural which Chris Rutterford (the son of my cousin, June) has painted and is now installed in the visitor centre.\u00a0 It is very impressive, \u00a0and after a bit of searching I found my face among&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-further"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1595,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/1595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}