{"id":153,"date":"2016-01-12T15:20:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T15:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/?p=153"},"modified":"2016-01-12T15:21:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T15:21:25","slug":"scots-language-the-national-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/2016\/01\/12\/scots-language-the-national-column\/","title":{"rendered":"Scots Language \u2013 The National Column"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National newspaper will be publishing a weekly Scots language column. The first one was circulated on the 7th of January, and can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/comment\/matthew-fitt-jings-or-whit-a-spang-new-column-in-the-mither-tongue.12022\">here<\/a>. The columns are written by Matthew Fitt, an established author and translator into Scots.<br \/>\nAlong with his body of written work, Mr Fitt has been promoting Scots in schools for a long time. He does classroom visits, and you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfitt.co.uk\/schoolvisits.html\">contact<\/a> him to discuss a visit.<br \/>\nThere is a wealth of other contemporary Scots being written. Those interested by this column may also wish to investigate the following: The Scots Language Centre produces a monthly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotslanguage.com\/articles\/view\/id\/4671\/type\">radio show<\/a> in Scots; The Scots Language Association publishes reviews, new works, and runs competitions; John Tait\u2019s Scots Threip site has varied <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/scotsthreip\/site-guide\/other\">articles<\/a> about matters affecting Scots, in Scots.<\/p>\n<p>Malcolm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National newspaper will be publishing a weekly Scots language column. The first one was circulated on the 7th of January, and can be viewed here. The columns are written by Matthew Fitt, an established author and translator into Scots. Along with his body of written work, Mr Fitt has been promoting Scots in schools&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[8,17],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}