{"id":29122,"date":"2013-12-27T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=29122"},"modified":"2013-12-19T17:20:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T22:20:06","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-auld-lang-syne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2013\/uncommon-knowledge-auld-lang-syne\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: What is &#8220;Auld Lang Syne&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/etched-champagne-flutes-set-of-2?source=blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/21630_zoom1.jpg\" alt=\"Etched Champagne Flutes | UncommonGoods\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/21630_zoom1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/21630_zoom1-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/21630_zoom1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/21630_zoom1-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/21630_zoom1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>The words of the familiar New Year\u2019s song \u201cAuld Lang Syne\u201d are actually an old Scottish poem. The poet Robert Burns submitted the words to the Scots Musical Museum in 1788, claiming it was a traditional verse and that he simply \u201ctook it down from an old man.\u201d Historical evidence suggests, however, that while the first verse is adapted from a 1711 poem, the rest of the words were likely Burns\u2019 own composition. The words \u201cauld lang syne\u201d literally mean \u201cold long since.\u201d It\u2019s the equivalent of saying \u201clong, long ago\u201d or \u201cdays gone by,\u201d and is even used in place of \u201conce upon a time\u201d in some Scottish stories.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/etched-champagne-flutes-set-of-2?source=blog\">Etched Champagne Flutes &#8211; Set of 2, $85<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The words of the familiar New Year\u2019s song \u201cAuld Lang Syne\u201d are actually an old Scottish poem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":30018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}