{"id":1193,"date":"2024-10-24T12:18:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T11:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stooryduster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/10-scotstober-2024-thole.png"},"modified":"2024-10-24T12:30:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T11:30:54","slug":"10-scotstober-2024-thole","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/stooryduster.co.uk\/blog\/scotstober-week-two\/10-scotstober-2024-thole\/","title":{"rendered":"10-scotstober-2024-thole"},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-1193","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry"],"description":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href='https:\/\/stooryduster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/10-scotstober-2024-thole.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" src=\"https:\/\/stooryduster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/10-scotstober-2024-thole-300x278.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"A seated Laird roped by the waist to a free-standing wicker chair is gesticulating at his worried looking manservant who is standing by holding a cord, the other end of which is attached to a big bag of bricks teetering on the edge of a low wall overlooking a sheer drop of great distance. In Scots: Ah canni thole this torture onie longer John. Dae yer duty. Tie yer unbrakable cord fast tae this damned tuith ahn kick the bricks oer the cliff. Dinni look sae worried MAN! Ahm no goin anywhere I&#039;m weel yokit tae this chair by stout rope, cos for tae quote the Bard.\u2028&quot;Where&#039;er that place be priests ca&#039; hell,\u2028Where a&#039; the tones o&#039; misery yell,\u2028And ranked plagues their numbers tell,\u2028In dreadfu&#039; raw,\u2028Thou, Tooth-ache, surely bear&#039;st the bell,\u2028Amang them a&#039;!&quot; Translate: thole: To suffer, to be subjected to or afflicted with, to have to bear or endure. In English: I cannot bear this torture any longer John. Do your duty. Tie your unbreakable cord fast to this damned tooth and kick the bricks over the cliff. Don&#039;t look so worried MAN! I&#039;m not going anywhere I&#039;m well tied to this chair by stout rope, because to quote the Bard. \u201c \u2026 \u201c\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stooryduster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/10-scotstober-2024-thole-300x278.png 300w, https:\/\/stooryduster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/10-scotstober-2024-thole-768x711.png 768w, https:\/\/stooryduster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/10-scotstober-2024-thole.png 921w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p>Word 01 Scotstober. Thole: To suffer, to be subjected to or afflicted with, to have to bear or endure.<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"A seated Laird roped by the waist to a free-standing wicker chair is gesticulating at his worried looking manservant who is standing by holding a cord, the other end of which is attached to a big bag of bricks teetering on the edge of a low wall overlooking a sheer drop of great distance. In Scots: Ah canni thole this torture onie longer John. Dae yer duty. Tie yer unbrakable cord fast tae this damned tuith ahn kick the bricks oer the cliff. Dinni look sae worried MAN! Ahm no goin anywhere I'm weel yokit tae this chair by stout rope, cos for tae quote the Bard.\u2028\"Where'er that place be priests ca' hell,\u2028Where a' the tones o' misery yell,\u2028And ranked plagues their numbers tell,\u2028In dreadfu' raw,\u2028Thou, Tooth-ache, surely bear'st the bell,\u2028Amang them a'!\" Translate: thole: To suffer, to be subjected to or afflicted with, to have to bear or endure. In English: I cannot bear this torture any longer John. Do your duty. Tie your unbreakable cord fast to this damned tooth and kick the bricks over the cliff. Don't look so worried MAN! I'm not going anywhere I'm well tied to this chair by stout rope, because to quote the Bard. \u201c \u2026 \u201c","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/png","media_details":{"width":921,"height":853,"file":"2024\/10\/10-scotstober-2024-thole.png","filesize":628104,"sizes":{"medium":{"file":"10-scotstober-2024-thole-300x278.png","width":300,"height":278,"filesize":88112,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/stooryduster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/10-scotstober-2024-thole-300x278.png"},"thumbnail":{"file":"10-scotstober-2024-thole-150x150.png","width":150,"height":150,"filesize":29391,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/stooryduster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/10-scotstober-2024-thole-150x150.png"},"medium_large":{"file":"10-scotstober-2024-thole-768x711.png","width":768,"height":711,"filesize":435355,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/stooryduster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/10-scotstober-2024-thole-768x711.png"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"10-scotstober-2024-thole-604x270.png","width":604,"height":270,"filesize":166092,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/stooryduster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/10-scotstober-2024-thole-604x270.png"},"full":{"file":"10-scotstober-2024-thole.png","width":921,"height":853,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/stooryduster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/10-scotstober-2024-thole.png"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":1190,"source_url":"https:\/\/stooryduster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/10-scotstober-2024-thole.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stooryduster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stooryduster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stooryduster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stooryduster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stooryduster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"wp:attached-to":[{"embeddable":true,"post_type":"post","id":1190,"href":"https:\/\/stooryduster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}