{"id":734,"date":"2017-06-27T20:54:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T20:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/?p=734"},"modified":"2017-06-27T20:54:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T20:54:33","slug":"san-diego-highland-games-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/san-diego-highland-games-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Highland Games 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T<a href=\"http:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/san-diego-2017b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-738 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/san-diego-2017b-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/san-diego-2017b-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/san-diego-2017b-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/san-diego-2017b.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>he air was filled with the sound of bagpipes at the 44th Annual San Diego Scottish Highland Games and Gathering of the Clans the weekend\u00a0of June 24-25. Located in the quaint hills of Vista, California. One of the smaller events in southern California, it provides a friends and family venue that can\u2019t be beat.<\/p>\n<p>Scottish culture filled the park during the two day festival, which featured a variety of activities and entertainment for guests of all ages: Sheepdog trials, Highland dancing, Scottish vendors, cuisine and beverages, bagpipe and drumming competitions, clan heritage tents, and hands-on children\u2019s activities.<\/p>\n<p>The festival&#8217;s popular beer garden&#8211;recognized by San Diego Magazine as the Best Beer Garden in North County&#8211;was a gathering place for attendees to sample flavorful beer varieties, while mingling with friends old and new.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_736\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-736\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/san-diego-2017d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-736 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/san-diego-2017d-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/san-diego-2017d-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/san-diego-2017d.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Convened by Greg Wallace (right) and Kevin Michaels (left).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Some highlights of the festival\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over 10,000 visitors<\/li>\n<li>Over forty clan booths.<\/li>\n<li>Athletic competition managed by the Scottish American Athletic Association, SAAA, with two world record attempts.<\/li>\n<li>Popular Celtic bands Wicked Tinkers, Highland Way, and Banshee in the Kitchen performed on two festival stages.<\/li>\n<li>United States Scottish Fiddle Champion, Mari Black.<\/li>\n<li>United State Western Highland Dance Champion, Beret Dernbach.<\/li>\n<li>Two 1-day USBCHA sanctioned Sheepdog Trials &#8212; Open &amp; Nursery.<\/li>\n<li>Over 50 vendors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Clan Wallace Booth<\/p>\n<p>The booth was visited by Wallace families from as far as Omaha, Nebraska and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Twelve signed the registry with two visitors interested in becoming involved with the Clan Wallace Society.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/san-diego-2017a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-737\" src=\"http:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/san-diego-2017a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"818\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/san-diego-2017a.jpg 818w, https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/san-diego-2017a-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/san-diego-2017a-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Contributed by Greg Wallace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The air was filled with the sound of bagpipes at the 44th Annual San Diego Scottish Highland Games and Gathering of the Clans the weekend\u00a0of June 24-25. Located in the quaint hills of Vista, California. One of the smaller events in southern California, it provides a friends and family venue that can\u2019t be beat. Scottish &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/san-diego-highland-games-2017\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">San Diego Highland Games 2017<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1759,"featured_media":735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[20,49,31,32],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clan-games","tag-highland-games","tag-san-diego-highland-games","tag-scottish-festival","tag-scottish-games","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}