{"id":323,"date":"2005-10-17T10:26:59","date_gmt":"2005-10-17T14:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/17\/scotland-and-nova-scotia\/"},"modified":"2005-10-17T10:27:19","modified_gmt":"2005-10-17T14:27:19","slug":"scotland-and-nova-scotia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/17\/scotland-and-nova-scotia\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland and Nova Scotia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/who_am_i\/index.html\">Charlie Stross<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/autopope\/77821.html\">reports on his LJ <\/a> that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Scottish Socialist Science Fiction Vanguard Party exists, and periodically meets in a pub. I can report that last night&#8217;s session was attended by, among other people, comrades Banks and MacLeod, with guest delegate John Meaney from the People&#8217;s Reactionary Suburb of Kent. It was resolved that (1) Scotland is even damper than usual this autumn, and (2) drinking beer is good.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a shocking display of the strong connections between Scotland and &#8220;New Scotland&#8221;, at this past week&#8217;s meeting of the Halifax Gentlemen&#8217;s Poker Association, similar resolutions were passed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Charlie Stross reports on his LJ that: &#8220;The Scottish Socialist Science Fiction Vanguard Party exists, and periodically meets in a pub. I can report that last night&#8217;s session was attended by, among other people, comrades Banks and MacLeod, with guest delegate John Meaney from the People&#8217;s Reactionary Suburb of Kent. It was resolved that (1) Scotland is even damper than&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/17\/scotland-and-nova-scotia\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytime","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-5d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}