{"id":152,"date":"2010-08-30T18:14:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T18:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmdc.wcu.edu\/?p=152"},"modified":"2023-06-20T13:20:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T13:20:55","slug":"highland-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/2010\/08\/30\/highland-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Highland Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2439\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2439\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2439\" title=\"Highland Games\" src=\"http:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Highland-Games.jpg\" alt=\"Highland Games\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Highland-Games.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Highland-Games-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Highland Games, Creative Commons image, Geograph<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Scottish Highland games have become increasingly popular in Appalachia. This trend undoubtedly reflects the significant number of mountain people with Scottish or Scotch-Irish ancestry. Highland games feature contests that demand strength and endurance. They include tossing the caber (a 20-foot-long, 121-lb. pole), tossing 56-pound weights over a horizontal bar for height, and throwing 22-pound hammers for distance. Wrestling and foot races in kilts are also popular. Other festival activities include bagpipe and drum bands, tartan parades, Highland dancing, foods, and crafts. Large games take place annually at: Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina; Gatlinburg, Tennessee; and Leesburg and Dumfries, Virginia. By romanticizing the roots of one particular ethnic group in Appalachia, Highland Games contribute to misleading images of the region\u2019s ethnic and cultural makeup.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Multimedia:<\/h3>\n<h2>Below is the Digital Heritage Moment as broadcast on the radio:<\/h2>\n[audio:http:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/HighlandGames60Mx.mp3|titles=HighlandGames60Mx]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scottish Highland games have become increasingly popular in Appalachia. This trend undoubtedly reflects the significant number of mountain people with Scottish or Scotch-Irish ancestry. Highland games feature contests that demand strength and endurance. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[256,282,556],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-grandfather-mountain","tag-highland-scots","tag-watauga-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8842,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/8842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}