{"id":1216,"date":"2012-04-29T08:18:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T08:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2012-04-29T08:18:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T08:18:12","slug":"upside-down-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=1216","title":{"rendered":"Upside-down weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, not rain falling into the sky. This:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/upside-down-weather.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1217\" title=\"upside-down weather\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/upside-down-weather.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/upside-down-weather.gif 328w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/upside-down-weather-251x300.gif 251w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A little-known codicil of the Treaty of Perpetual Peace between Scotland and England in 1502 decreed that each side give up something. Scotland agreed to cede all good weather to England. England made the playing of bagpipes punishable by deportation to Scotland. Despite some grumbles on both sides of the border, not to mention a wee invasion by the Scots in 1513 which redefined &#8220;perpetual&#8221;, the two countries unified in a small ceremony in Gretna Green in the early 17th century.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see from this BBC weather map, Scotland has reneged once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not rain falling into the sky. This: A little-known codicil of the Treaty of Perpetual Peace between Scotland and England in 1502 decreed that each side give up something. Scotland agreed to cede all good weather to England. England &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=1216\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}