{"id":361,"date":"2008-09-06T03:53:56","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T10:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=361"},"modified":"2008-09-11T13:36:06","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T13:36:06","slug":"border-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/09\/06\/border-post\/","title":{"rendered":"BORDER POST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">We took a brief diversion this weekend to attend my cousin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wedding in Edinburgh. Driving north on the A1 from Berwick it was intriguing to see the different\u00c2\u00a0ways that England and Scotland mark their border posts. As you head north drivers are met with a large, clear sign based on the Scottish flag, which welcomes you to Scotland. It could be seen from a distance, even in the pouring rain.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2788.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-362\" title=\"img_2788\" src=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2788.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2788.jpg 567w, https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2788-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Driving south a couple of days later, in similarly depressing weather conditions, I only just spotted our border post. A rather pathetic stone block, covered in lichen,\u00c2\u00a0with the barely readable words \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcEngland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<span>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2789.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-363\" title=\"img_2789\" src=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2789.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2789.jpg 567w, https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2789-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Are there conclusions to be drawn from these contrasting declarations of identity?!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We took a brief diversion this weekend to attend my cousin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wedding in Edinburgh. Driving north on the A1 from Berwick it was intriguing to see the different\u00c2\u00a0ways that England and Scotland mark their border posts. As you head north drivers are met with a large, clear sign based on the Scottish flag, which welcomes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}