{"id":1863,"date":"2012-08-24T12:33:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T01:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2013-07-08T10:38:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T00:38:29","slug":"deer-stalkers-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=1863","title":{"rendered":"Deer Stalker&#8217;s Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes mis-comprehend things.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere in my head when I volunteered to buy a ticket for the Deer Stalkers Ball, when somebody mentioned seating availability and supporting\u00a0things\u00a0that go on in town, I put my hand up.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Intending to have a bite and then shoot down to Melbourne, it was only an hour before the event that Anna&#8217;s mum pointed out that it looked like I had a ticket for a ball, and that all of decorum, dress sense, and full attendance were possibly required. Melbourne would have to wait.<\/p>\n<p>I tried haggis for the first time, and I actually enjoyed it. I expected it to be more offally, but it was more peppery pate-like. Very nice!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not too important, but made it into the society pages <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.net.au\/story\/256701\/future-burns-bright-for-camperdowns-newest-festival\/\">(photo 24)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes mis-comprehend things. Somewhere in my head when I volunteered to buy a ticket for the Deer Stalkers Ball, when somebody mentioned seating availability and supporting\u00a0things\u00a0that go on in town, I put my hand up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[62,64,360,63,61],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-ball","tag-burns-festival","tag-funny","tag-haggis","tag-scottish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2535,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions\/2535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}