{"id":1891,"date":"2004-04-02T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-02T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2004-04-02T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-02T21:07:00","slug":"terms-of-endearment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/04\/02\/17\/07\/terms-of-endearment-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Terms Of Endearment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scots_language\">Scots<\/a> is surely one of the few Anglo-Saxon dialects where &#8220;ye daft wee cunt&#8221; is actually a term of fond endearment. In passing, I note that the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scots\">Scots<\/a> originally came from Northern Ireland in the 6th century, invaded Pictland and renamed it Scotland or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alba\">Alba<\/a>, then were <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Ireland#English_involvement_in_Ireland\">transplanted back to Northern Ireland<\/a> beginning in the 17th century and, accelerated by the ethnic cleansing outrages of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lowland_Clearances\">Lowland<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Highland_Clearances\">Highland<\/a> Clearances, formed a huge percentage of the population of the pre-Revolutionary North American Colonies, especially in the western frontiers. Their hostility to attempts by English landlords to exercise their land grant rights in North America provided the anti-British rebels in North America with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/000715626X\/meehawl-20\/\">early and crucial support<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scots is surely one of the few Anglo-Saxon dialects where &#8220;ye daft wee cunt&#8221; is actually a term of fond endearment. In passing, I note that the Scots originally came from Northern Ireland in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}