{"id":5018,"date":"2021-04-22T13:53:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T13:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=5018"},"modified":"2021-04-22T13:53:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T13:53:55","slug":"storas-beo-calum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2021\/04\/22\/storas-beo-calum\/","title":{"rendered":"St\u00f2ras Be\u00f2: Calum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5020 alignright\" src=\"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/caf1.jpg\" alt=\"CAF1\" width=\"336\" height=\"178\" \/>Calum Alasdair Fraser, from Tolastadh a\u2019 Chaolais, talks to Maggie Smith about his family connections and upbringing on the west side of Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>In his childhood he spent a lot of time outdoors. Though still young himself, he remembers the sound of weaving from many houses &#8211; a sound that is no longer heard. After leaving school he tried various jobs in different locations. Now he works on Gaelic issues with An Lanntair in Stornoway.<\/p>\n<p>He talks about how he values the Gaelic language and its close connection to where he lives, even though it wasn\u2019t his home language growing up. He also talks about his musical activities, and his interest in maintaining local interest in Gaelic, relating it to a changed way of life that still has close connections to previous generations.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Calum Alasdair Friseal: St\u00f2ras Be\u00f2 nan G\u00e0idheal (Zoom)\" width=\"656\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5S59NCL5n6o?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<p>A full transcript with the video embedded can be viewed on the Clilstore platform here: https:\/\/multidict.net\/cs\/9331<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calum Alasdair Fraser, from Tolastadh a\u2019 Chaolais, talks to Maggie Smith about his family connections and upbringing on the west side of Lewis. In his childhood he spent a lot of time outdoors. Though still young himself, he remembers the sound of weaving from many houses &#8211; a sound that is no longer heard. After &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2021\/04\/22\/storas-beo-calum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">St\u00f2ras Be\u00f2: Calum<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-call","category-community","category-research","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018","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=5018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}