{"id":8694,"date":"2022-09-05T04:39:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T04:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/09\/05\/crowds-gather-for-the-braemar-highland-games\/"},"modified":"2022-09-05T04:39:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T04:39:05","slug":"crowds-gather-for-the-braemar-highland-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=8694","title":{"rendered":"Crowds gather for the Braemar Highland games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Crowds from across the globe have attended the Braemar Gathering, the popular Highland Games event, to watch competitors take part in a series of events including the caber toss, hammer throw and tug-o-war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The event has been cancelled for the past two years because of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The Queen attends the gathering most years but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-62766252\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">missed the event this year<\/a>, with Prince Charles attending instead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">It is understood the decision was taken for the comfort of the Queen who has been suffering from mobility problems since last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Peter Fraser, president of the Braemar Royal Highland Games Society, said that &#8220;after three years, it is great to be back&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-62782871?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Crowds from across the globe have attended the Braemar Gathering, the popular Highland Games event, to watch competitors take part in a series of events including the caber toss, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}