{"id":253,"date":"2016-12-05T14:21:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T14:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/?p=253"},"modified":"2016-12-05T14:24:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T14:24:46","slug":"wee-windaes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/2016\/12\/05\/wee-windaes\/","title":{"rendered":"Wee Windaes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Library of Scotland has launched a major new website which aims to raise awareness of the richness and depth of the Scots language.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/wee-windaes.nls.uk\/\">Wee Windaes<\/a> project was developed by the National Library of Scotland and the Scots\u00a0Scriever,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hamish MacDonald, as a showcase of the use of Scots language in many different forms including song, folk tale, scripture, satire, drama, fiction and poetry.<\/p>\n<p>The website is available in Scots and English and is based on a series of &#8216;windaes&#8217;. Each contain a link to more information about the various texts, most of which are being made available online for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The earliest work on the site is <a href=\"http:\/\/wee-windaes.nls.uk\/the-buke-of-the-howlat\/\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">&#8216;The Buke of the Howlat&#8217;<\/span><\/a>, a performance poem from the 1440s.<\/p>\n<p>At present the most recent\u00a0items on the site date from the late 20th century.\u00a0However there are plans\u00a0to add more authors and texts to the site throughout 2017, including\u00a0works from the present day.<\/p>\n<p>This is a fantastic resource, which is well worth investigating, and also returning to regularly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Library of Scotland has launched a major new website which aims to raise awareness of the richness and depth of the Scots language. The Wee Windaes project was developed by the National Library of Scotland and the Scots\u00a0Scriever,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hamish MacDonald, as a showcase of the use of Scots language in many different forms&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[17,54],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"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\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}