{"id":345,"date":"2015-03-28T11:37:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T11:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.burnshowffclub.org\/howffblog\/?p=345"},"modified":"2015-03-28T11:55:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T11:55:07","slug":"presidents-blog-march-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.burnshowffclub.org\/howffblog\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"President&#8217;s Blog  March 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lecture By Colin H McQueen 2015<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nPresident&#8217;s Blog &#8211;  March 2015  &#8211; Club Lectures<\/p>\n<p><strong>Would Burns have made a good Vet? &#8211;  Colin Hunter McQueen<br \/>\n<\/strong>At the recent library night (organised by our intrepid Hon. Librarian), Gordon Johnstone introduced   <strong>Colin Hunter McQueen  <\/strong>from Glasgow who presented to the club an impressive  display of Burns related letters, relics and artefacts from his own private collection. Reading from a thesis by  scholar Prof Sharpe, he gave a lecture on Burns&#8217; veterinary skills which gave positive credence to the question whether Burns could have pursued a career as a Vet.  A most enjoyable lecture from a very knowledgeable gentleman and avid Burnsian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecture By Colin H McQueen 2015 President&#8217;s Blog &#8211; March 2015 &#8211; Club Lectures Would Burns have made a good Vet? &#8211; Colin Hunter McQueen At the recent library night (organised by our intrepid Hon. Librarian), Gordon Johnstone introduced Colin &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burnshowffclub.org\/howffblog\/?p=345\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.burnshowffclub.org\/howffblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.burnshowffclub.org\/howffblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.burnshowffclub.org\/howffblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.burnshowffclub.org\/howffblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.burnshowffclub.org\/howffblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.burnshowffclub.org\/howffblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"http:\/\/www.burnshowffclub.org\/howffblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.burnshowffclub.org\/howffblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.burnshowffclub.org\/howffblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.burnshowffclub.org\/howffblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}