{"id":3684,"date":"2016-12-16T22:09:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T22:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=3684"},"modified":"2016-12-16T22:09:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T22:09:25","slug":"norman-maclean-if-he-turns-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2016\/12\/16\/norman-maclean-if-he-turns-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Norman Maclean &#8211; if he turns up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ifheturnsup.wordpress.com\/2016\/12\/16\/ready-steady-go\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/normansblog.jpg\" alt=\"normansblog\" width=\"272\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s a treat in store for anyone who&#8217;s seen and liked <a href=\"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/sgeulachdan-thormoid\/\" target=\"_blank\">Norman Maclean<\/a>&#8216;s work on Island Voices (or elsewhere). Norman is starting his own blog &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/ifheturnsup.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;If he turns up&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; and is inviting readers to give it a shot. It will consist of slices from his newest title, not yet published &#8211; &#8220;A Half-Breed Looks Back&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ll do this on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays until I have evidence, one way or another, that there is measurable demand for my stuff. Please share with anyone who may be turned on by my ramblings about slum life in 50s Glasgow, undergraduate lowlights and a veteran entertainer\u2019s return to the Hebrides.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s his first post &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/ifheturnsup.wordpress.com\/2016\/12\/16\/ready-steady-go\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ready, Steady, Go!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nach sgaoil sibh an naidheachd seo, a ch\u00e0irdean!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a treat in store for anyone who&#8217;s seen and liked Norman Maclean&#8216;s work on Island Voices (or elsewhere). Norman is starting his own blog &#8211; &#8220;If he turns up&#8221; &#8211; and is inviting readers to give it a shot. It will consist of slices from his newest title, not yet published &#8211; &#8220;A Half-Breed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2016\/12\/16\/norman-maclean-if-he-turns-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Norman Maclean &#8211; if he turns up!<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-ugc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684","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=3684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}