{"id":468,"date":"2012-11-22T15:05:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T14:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/AuchinleckAcademyLibrary\/?p=468"},"modified":"2012-11-22T15:05:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T14:05:26","slug":"soldiers-game-by-james-killgore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/2012\/11\/22\/soldiers-game-by-james-killgore\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldier&#8217;s Game by James Killgore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/AuchinleckAcademyLibrary\/files\/2012\/11\/KillgoreSoldiersGame.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-469\" title=\"KillgoreSoldiersGame\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/AuchinleckAcademyLibrary\/files\/2012\/11\/KillgoreSoldiersGame-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Ross is fed up with being on the losing side, as Bruntsfield Primary football team suffer another humiliating defeat. But after football practice each week he goes to visit his grandmother, and this week she has a special present for him. Pat digs out a pair of old football boots and strip which belonged to her father, who once played for Heart of Midlothian Football Club. Ross is amazed that his great-grandfather, Jack, had played for the famous Hearts. As he finds out more about Jack, an incredible story unfolds &#8212; a tale of Edinburgh&#8217;s young heroes and a battalion of footballers and fans who fought in the First World War at the Battle of the Somme. Based on the true story of the 16th Royal Scots, otherwise known as the &#8216;Heart of Midlothian Battalion&#8217;, this moving book brings a fascinating moment of Scottish history to life.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Okay. It was a bit different. S (S2) ***<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Great book but may confuse younger readers. A (S1) ****<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">It was a very good book and interesting. I really liked it. S (S2)<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">It was a great book. I enjoyed it. A (S1) ****<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross is fed up with being on the losing side, as Bruntsfield Primary football team suffer another humiliating defeat. But after football practice each week he goes to visit his grandmother, and this week she has a special present for him. Pat digs out a pair of old football boots and strip which belonged to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,73,52,6,96,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-for-boys","category-football","category-friendship","category-historical-stories","category-killgore","category-world-war-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}