{"id":556,"date":"2014-12-28T14:55:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T14:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/?p=556"},"modified":"2015-01-04T15:29:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T15:29:04","slug":"wanneys-yomp-boxing-day-silliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/2014\/12\/wanneys-yomp-boxing-day-silliness\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanney&#8217;s Yomp &#8211; Boxing Day silliness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a piece of  ritual silliness that is the annual Wanney&#8217;s Yomp &#8211; when pipers from far  and wide gather on top of Great Wanney crag in central Northumberland to  play tunes, share cake and see whose fingers drop off first. As ever, we gathered on 26th of December about here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetmap.co.uk\/map.srf?X=393110&amp;Y=583280&amp;A=Y&amp;Z=120\">http:\/\/www.streetmap.co.uk\/map.srf?X=393110&amp;Y=583280&amp;A=Y&amp;Z=120<\/a><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-556 gallery-columns-5 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0239.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0239-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-559\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-559'>\n\t\t\t\tAssembled Throng\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0238.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0238-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-558\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-558'>\n\t\t\t\tConcentrating Pipers\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0244.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0244-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-560\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-560'>\n\t\t\t\tGillespie Brothers\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0237.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0237-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-557\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-557'>\n\t\t\t\tSilliness\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s play list included amonst others: The Cold Night&#8217;s of Winter, Herd on the Hill, Bonny at Morn &amp; Wild Hills of Wanney. After playing some tunes, we headed off to the local pub &#8211; the <a title=\"The Gun Inn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guninn.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gun Inn at Ridsdale<\/a> for some warmth, beer and lots more music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a piece of ritual silliness that is the annual Wanney&#8217;s Yomp &#8211; when pipers from far and wide gather on top of Great Wanney crag in central Northumberland to play tunes, share cake and see whose fingers drop off first. As ever, we gathered on 26th of December about here: http:\/\/www.streetmap.co.uk\/map.srf?X=393110&amp;Y=583280&amp;A=Y&amp;Z=120 &nbsp; This year&#8217;s<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/2014\/12\/wanneys-yomp-boxing-day-silliness\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}