{"id":3123,"date":"2015-01-30T10:24:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T10:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2015-01-30T10:24:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T10:24:45","slug":"norman-johnson-piper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2015\/01\/30\/norman-johnson-piper\/","title":{"rendered":"Norman Johnson &#8211; Piper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/northuistww1.wordpress.com\/2015\/01\/30\/norman-johnson-piper\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3121 size-thumbnail\" title=\"Tormod MacIain air &quot;An fheadhainn tha laighe s\u00e0mhach&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pipernorman2.jpg?w=141\" alt=\"PiperNorman2\" width=\"141\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pipernorman2.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pipernorman2-283x300.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 141px) 100vw, 141px\" \/><\/a>Norman Johnson talks in Gaelic to Mary Morrison about the special role of the piper in many regiments in the First World War &#8211; Canadian, Australian, Indian, and others, as well as Scottish. He relates anecdotes heard from old soldiers in the war, and finishes with a special tune &#8211; Donald&#8217;s awa&#8217; to war.<\/p>\n<p>Mary made this recording for the &#8220;<a title=\"An fheadhainn tha laighe s\u00e0mhach site\" href=\"https:\/\/northuistww1.wordpress.com\/about\/\">An fheadhainn tha laighe s\u00e0mhach<\/a>&#8221; project led by the North Uist Historical Society, Comann Eachdraidh Uibhist a Tuath.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Norman Johnson - Piper\" width=\"656\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NNSSfeErLdI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norman Johnson talks in Gaelic to Mary Morrison about the special role of the piper in many regiments in the First World War &#8211; Canadian, Australian, Indian, and others, as well as Scottish. He relates anecdotes heard from old soldiers in the war, and finishes with a special tune &#8211; Donald&#8217;s awa&#8217; to war. Mary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2015\/01\/30\/norman-johnson-piper\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Norman Johnson &#8211; Piper<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-ugc","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}