{"id":121,"date":"2013-03-05T20:45:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T19:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/engelska\/?p=121"},"modified":"2015-10-12T15:22:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T13:22:59","slug":"week-10-discuss-this-painting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/engelska\/week-10-discuss-this-painting-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 10 &#8211; discuss this painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/engelska\/files\/2013\/03\/The-Reverend-Robert-Walker-1755-1808-Skating-on-Duddingston-Loch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-116 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/engelska\/files\/2013\/03\/The-Reverend-Robert-Walker-1755-1808-Skating-on-Duddingston-Loch-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Reverend Robert Walker 1755-1808 Skating on Duddingston Loch\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/engelska\/files\/2013\/03\/The-Reverend-Robert-Walker-1755-1808-Skating-on-Duddingston-Loch-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/engelska\/files\/2013\/03\/The-Reverend-Robert-Walker-1755-1808-Skating-on-Duddingston-Loch.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a>The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch<\/b><\/i>, better known by its shorter title <i><b>The Skating Minister<\/b><\/i>, is an oil painting by Sir <a title=\"Henry Raeburn\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Raeburn\">Henry Raeburn<\/a> in the <a title=\"National Gallery of Scotland\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Gallery_of_Scotland\">National Gallery of Scotland<\/a> in Edinburgh. It was practically unknown until about 1949; today, however, it is one of Scotland&#8217;s best known paintings. It is considered an icon of Scottish culture, painted during one of the most remarkable periods in the country&#8217;s history, the <a title=\"Scottish Enlightenment\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scottish_Enlightenment\">Scottish Enlightenment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He was minister of the <a title=\"Kirk of the Canongate\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kirk_of_the_Canongate\">Canongate Kirk<\/a> as well as being a member of the <a title=\"Edinburgh Skating Club\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edinburgh_Skating_Club\">Edinburgh Skating Club<\/a>, the first figure skating club in the world.\u00a0 The club met on <a title=\"Duddingston Loch\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Duddingston_Loch\">Duddingston Loch<\/a> as shown in the painting, or on <a title=\"Lochend, Edinburgh\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lochend,_Edinburgh\">Lochend<\/a> loch to its northeast between Edinburgh and leith, when these lochs were suitably frozen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, better known by its shorter title The Skating Minister, is an oil painting by Sir Henry Raeburn in the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. It was practically unknown until about 1949; today, however, it is one of Scotland&#8217;s best known paintings. It is considered an icon&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/engelska\/week-10-discuss-this-painting-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Week 10 &#8211; discuss this painting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-umea-advanced-reading-and-writing","tag-scottish-enlightenment","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/engelska\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/engelska\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/engelska\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/engelska\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/engelska\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/engelska\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/engelska\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/engelska\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/engelska\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.folkuniversitetet.nu\/engelska\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}