{"id":280,"date":"2008-07-29T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/?p=280"},"modified":"2021-03-17T20:39:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T03:39:03","slug":"pnw-highland-games-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/29\/pnw-highland-games-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"PNW Highland Games 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend Mr. H, The Outlaw Baker<\/a> (my little brother, Timmy), and I attended the PNW Highland Games. Mr. H was not competing this year so our presence at the games was entirely for the purpose of listening to some loud music<\/p>\n

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eating a lot of food (no haggis this year, we couldn’t handle the 40 minute wait)<\/p>\n

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and then engaging in the most cherished of Scottish traditions<\/p>\n

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This weekend Mr. H, The Outlaw Baker (my little brother, Timmy), and I attended the PNW Highland Games. Mr. H was not competing this year so our presence at the games was entirely for the purpose of listening to some loud music eating a lot of food (no haggis this year, we couldn’t handle the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[768,1041],"tags":[21,86,24,23,685],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure-living-well","category-life-skills","tag-bagpipes","tag-enumclaw","tag-photography-creating-a-living","tag-scottish","tag-washington-state-2","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"768":{"name":"Adventure","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/category\/life-skills\/adventure-living-well\/"},"1041":{"name":"Tools & Skills for Living","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/category\/life-skills\/"}},"tags_names":{"21":{"name":"bagpipes","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/bagpipes\/"},"86":{"name":"Enumclaw","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/enumclaw\/"},"24":{"name":"Photography","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/photography-creating-a-living\/"},"23":{"name":"scottish","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/scottish\/"},"685":{"name":"washington state","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/washington-state-2\/"}},"comments_number":0,"wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1fDeG-4w","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":283,"url":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/30\/the-original-marching-bands\/","url_meta":{"origin":280,"position":0},"title":"The Original Marching Bands","author":"Judy Schwartz Haley","date":"","format":false,"excerpt":"Part of the ritual of the Highland games is the massing of the bands. 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