{"id":1195,"date":"2021-01-25T08:54:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T08:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2021-01-06T15:58:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T15:58:51","slug":"burns-night-25-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2021\/01\/25\/burns-night-25-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Burns Night 25 January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1199 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/01\/quote-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"208\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Burns Night is annually celebrated in Scotland and commemorates the life of the poet Robert Burns, who was born on 25 January 1759. The day also celebrates Burns&#8217; contribution to Scottish culture, with his best known work being Auld Lang Syne.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1200 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/01\/quote-300x154.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/01\/quote-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/01\/quote.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As Scotland\u2019s national poet, Robert Burns\u00a0is recognised the world over for his work focusing on universal themes of love and nature.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1197\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/01\/neeps-and-tatties.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"161\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1196\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/01\/clootie-pudding-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/01\/clootie-pudding-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/01\/clootie-pudding.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 85vw, 330px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Burns suppers are celebrated on this day with traditional dishes of a classic smoked fish soup and the essential haggis, neeps and tatties &#8211; rounded off with a traditional clootie dumpling pudding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burns Night is annually celebrated in Scotland and commemorates the life of the poet Robert Burns, who was born on 25 January 1759. The day also celebrates Burns&#8217; contribution to Scottish culture, with his best known work being Auld Lang Syne. As Scotland\u2019s national poet, Robert Burns\u00a0is recognised the world over for his work focusing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2021\/01\/25\/burns-night-25-january\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Burns Night 25 January&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":1201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-celebration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions\/1203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}