{"id":1928,"date":"2010-04-25T00:55:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T22:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/bletherskite\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2010-04-25T00:55:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T22:55:56","slug":"macnicol-mor-and-the-macleods-of-raasay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/?p=1928","title":{"rendered":"MacNicol Mor and the Macleods of Raasay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/scottish-clans\/clan-macneacail\/\">MacNicol<\/a> Mor, a chief of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/scottish-clans\/clan-nicolson\/\">MacNicol clan<\/a> was engaged in a heated discussion with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/scottish-clans\/clan-macleod\/\">MacLeod<\/a> of Raasay. While the two men argued away in English a servant, who could speak only gaelic, presumed that the two leaders were quarreling. The servant, thinking his master in danger,\u00a0 drew out his sword and slew MacNicol Mor.<\/p>\n<p>The clan elders and chiefs in an attempt to prevent a feud breaking out, held council to determine the manner in which to appease the MacNicols. In true Clan style the decision agreed upon was that the &#8220;meanest&#8221; of Clan Nicol would behead <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/scottish-clans\/clan-macleod\/\">Macleod<\/a> of Raasay.<\/p>\n<p>The man chosen for this task was Lomach, a lowly maker of Pannier baskets, he carried out his task and cut off the head of the Laird of Raasay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MacNicol Mor, a chief of the MacNicol clan was engaged in a heated discussion with MacLeod of Raasay. While the two men argued away in English a servant, who could speak only gaelic, presumed that the two leaders were quarreling. The servant, thinking his master in danger,\u00a0 drew out his sword and slew MacNicol Mor. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336,338],"tags":[335,198,337,339,229,199],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macneacail","category-nicolson","tag-lewis","tag-macleod","tag-macneacail","tag-nicolson","tag-raasay","tag-skye"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}