{"id":30045,"date":"2024-11-27T14:43:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T19:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=30045"},"modified":"2024-11-29T14:06:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T19:06:52","slug":"abbotsford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=30045","title":{"rendered":"Abbotsford"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abbotsford is Sir Walter Scott’s home, at Melrose in the Scottish Borders. The place is fascinating. Scott’s library is intact, and it is enormous. In fact I suspect that Scott’s books are worth as much as his house.<\/p>\n

I learned something new about Scott. He had a favorite cat who often sat on his desk when he was writing. There is a portrait of the cat in the house; her name was Hinse. Any writer who had cats is sure to have at least one cat character in his novels. I need to do some research on that, and I can’t think of a better place to get started that tomorrow’s trip to Edinburgh for a lecture at the Sir Walter Scott Club. <\/p>\n

I have many photos, and I’ll have more later. I have only an iPhone to work with while traveling, so I’ll save my photos until I’m back at home with a proper computer and Photoshop.<\/p>\n

I plan to visit Berwick Upon Tweed on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abbotsford is Sir Walter Scott’s home, at Melrose in the Scottish Borders. The place is fascinating. Scott’s library is intact, and it is enormous. In fact I suspect that Scott’s books are worth as much as his house. I learned something new about Scott. He had a favorite cat who often sat on his desk … Continue reading “Abbotsford”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30062,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30045\/revisions\/30062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}