{"id":2220,"date":"2025-12-31T11:15:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T10:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rlstevenson-europe.org\/?p=2220"},"modified":"2026-01-01T18:24:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T17:24:44","slug":"a-guid-new-year-to-ye-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rlstevenson-europe.org\/en\/news\/a-guid-new-year-to-ye-a\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A guid New Year to ye a&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>I wish all our readers and their families a very happy and prosperous New Year; one in which the Essence and Spirit of Stevenson brings them joy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martin White, President<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"480\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 460 \/ 480;\" width=\"460\" autoplay controls loop muted src=\"https:\/\/www.rlstevenson-europe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Video3-convertie.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;As for skating, there is scarce any city so handsomely provided. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duddingstone Loch lies under the abrupt southern side of Arthur&#8217;s Seat; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>in summer a shield of blue, with swans sailing from the reeds; in winter, a field of ringing ice.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8216;Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes&#8217; <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter IX<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robert Louis Stevenson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Thanks to Valerie Pellatt et William Fairney<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish all our readers and their families a very happy and prosperous New Year; one in which the Essence and Spirit of Stevenson brings them joy.<br \/>\nMartin White, president<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-2220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-83"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlstevenson-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlstevenson-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlstevenson-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlstevenson-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlstevenson-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlstevenson-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2255,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlstevenson-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions\/2255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlstevenson-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlstevenson-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlstevenson-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlstevenson-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}