{"id":2116,"date":"2025-09-26T16:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T16:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/braemar\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2025-09-26T16:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T16:22:06","slug":"a-visit-from-peter-mackay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/braemar\/2025\/09\/26\/a-visit-from-peter-mackay\/","title":{"rendered":"A visit from Peter Mackay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/braemar\/20250926_144323\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2115\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/braemar\/2025\/09\/26\/a-visit-from-peter-mackay\/20250926_144323\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/public\/braemar\/uploads\/sites\/2795\/2025\/09\/26161542\/20250926_144323.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1260,945\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-G991B&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1758897804&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.4&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;250&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.01&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20250926_144323\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/public\/braemar\/uploads\/sites\/2795\/2025\/09\/26161542\/20250926_144323-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/public\/braemar\/uploads\/sites\/2795\/2025\/09\/26161542\/20250926_144323-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2115\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/public\/braemar\/uploads\/sites\/2795\/2025\/09\/26161542\/20250926_144323-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/public\/braemar\/uploads\/sites\/2795\/2025\/09\/26161542\/20250926_144323-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/public\/braemar\/uploads\/sites\/2795\/2025\/09\/26161542\/20250926_144323-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/public\/braemar\/uploads\/sites\/2795\/2025\/09\/26161542\/20250926_144323-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/public\/braemar\/uploads\/sites\/2795\/2025\/09\/26161542\/20250926_144323.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This afternoon P5-7 had a visit from Scotland&#8217;s Makar, Peter Mackay, as part of Braemar Literary Festival. We asked him about his role as Makar, about his poetry and also asked about Gaelic, as we have just started learning Gaelic in class. He shared some of his poems with us and we made up a funny story together about a spooky house in the woods. After he left, we wrote poems about biscoff biscuits!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon P5-7 had a visit from Scotland&#8217;s Makar, Peter Mackay, as part of Braemar Literary Festival. We asked him about his role as Makar, about his poetry and also asked about Gaelic, as we have just started learning Gaelic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/braemar\/2025\/09\/26\/a-visit-from-peter-mackay\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/braemar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/braemar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/braemar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/braemar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/braemar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/braemar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2117,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/braemar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions\/2117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/braemar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/braemar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/braemar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}