{"id":6417,"date":"2024-06-13T11:22:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T10:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/?p=6417"},"modified":"2024-06-13T11:22:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T10:22:08","slug":"the-passin-o-a-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/the-passin-o-a-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Passin o a Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Passin o\u00a0a Queen by John Hodgart wis a jynt winner in the 2023 McCash Prize<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lizzie\u2019s awa an oot pour the pieties,
Droonin maist o the land in grievin,
(But shunnin ony improprieties)
Tae wing her on the wey tae Heiven,
As if we aw had lost oor mither,
(Queues roon streets for miles weavin)
As weel as oor sister an oor brither.
In fact it\u2019s faur ayont believin
An I\u2019ve neer kent o\u2019t for anither.
Hauf the world gied up breathin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But mibbie for her it wis a blessin
She didnae see whit she\u2019d become:
Gey near a saunt I\u2019m kinna guessin,
Wi obsequies tae lea ye dumb
An neer-endin encomiums,
Some fu o guff, some fu o unction,
Some weel mixed wi opiums,
As gabblin hauf-wits, lackin gumption,
Thocht it decreed, by God\u2019s ain will,
The maist important thing eer seen.
As if the planets shid staun still
For the passin o a queen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet ither things I daurnae mention,
In case ye think I\u2019m on a rant,
Noo that we\u2019ve witnesst her Ascension;
Her coffin, the Ark o the Covenant.
While Putin\u2019s war aye grinds awa
In a land sair battert, bluidy an raw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Hodgart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Passin o\u00a0a Queen by John Hodgart wis a jynt winner in the 2023 McCash Prize. Lizzie\u2019s awa an oot pour the pieties,Droonin maist o the land in grievin,(But shunnin ony improprieties)Tae wing her on the wey tae Heiven,As if we aw had lost oor mither,(Queues roon streets for miles weavin)As weel as oor sister […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-giesascotspoemday","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phaZzh-1Fv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6420,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6417\/revisions\/6420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}