{"id":7609,"date":"2011-12-31T13:55:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T12:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=7609"},"modified":"2011-12-31T13:55:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T12:55:02","slug":"what-does-auld-lang-syne-actually-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=7609","title":{"rendered":"What does &#8220;auld lang syne&#8221; actually mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At midnight, many of us will be attempting to sing &#8220;Auld Lang Syne&#8221;. But what on earth do these words mean?<\/p>\n<p>Literally they mean &#8216;old long since&#8217;. Less literally, they mean &#8216;long long ago&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>More information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/top-stories\/2011\/12\/31\/three-quarters-of-us-don-t-know-the-words-to-auld-lang-syne-115875-23669465\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At midnight, many of us will be attempting to sing &#8220;Auld Lang Syne&#8221;. But what on earth do these words mean? Literally they mean &#8216;old long since&#8217;. Less literally, they mean &#8216;long long ago&#8217;. More information here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7610,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609\/revisions\/7610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}