{"id":8168,"date":"2013-01-28T21:25:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=8168"},"modified":"2013-01-28T21:25:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:25:44","slug":"up-helly-aa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=8168","title":{"rendered":"Up Helly Aa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/uphellyaa.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"147\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin:0 0 10px 15px;\" alt=\"Up Helly Aa, Shetland\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week I will mainly be in Shetland for the Lerwick <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uphellyaa.org\/\">Up Helly Aa<\/a> fire festival, which starts tomorrow. I haven&#8217;t seen any Vikings yet, but there&#8217;ll be plenty around tomorrow night.<\/p>\n<p>I have heard quite a few people speaking with Shetland accents, which sounds to me a bit like Scots with some Scandinavian prosody. I haven&#8217;t heard anybody speaking broad Shetlandic yet, apart from recordings in the museum, but am listening out for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I will mainly be in Shetland for the Lerwick Up Helly Aa fire festival, which starts tomorrow. I haven&#8217;t seen any Vikings yet, but there&#8217;ll be plenty around tomorrow night. I have heard quite a few people speaking with Shetland accents, which sounds to me a bit like Scots with some Scandinavian prosody. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}