{"id":2373,"date":"2021-04-23T11:34:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T10:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:47:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:47:02","slug":"james-hogg-at-250-the-farmhand-who-becomes-one-of-scotlands-greatest-storytellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/james-hogg-at-250-the-farmhand-who-becomes-one-of-scotlands-greatest-storytellers\/","title":{"rendered":"James Hogg at 250: the farmhand who becomes one of Scotland\u2019s greatest storytellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a follow up to Dr Daniel Cook\u2019s event celebrating the 250<sup>th<\/sup> birthday of James Hogg, Dr Cook, Reader in English recently featured in The Conversation with his article on James Hogg.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2374\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2374\" style=\"width: 463px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/cook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2374\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/cook-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/cook-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/cook-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/cook.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Daniel Cook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The article is titled <em>James Hogg at 250: the farmhand who becomes one of Scotland\u2019s greatest storytellers<\/em> and details his life, career and published poet. Dr Cook also draws attention to Hogg\u2019s literary afterlife and legacy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2375\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2375\" style=\"width: 659px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/115483287_jameshogggettyagain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2375 \" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/115483287_jameshogggettyagain-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"659\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/115483287_jameshogggettyagain-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/115483287_jameshogggettyagain-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2021\/04\/115483287_jameshogggettyagain.jpg 976w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Hogg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Read the article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/james-hogg-at-250-the-farmhand-who-became-one-of-scotlands-greatest-storytellers-155534\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/james-hogg-at-250-the-farmhand-who-became-one-of-scotlands-greatest-storytellers-155534<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a follow up to Dr Daniel Cook\u2019s event celebrating the 250th birthday of James Hogg, Dr Cook, Reader in English recently featured in The Conversation with his article on James Hogg. The article is titled James Hogg at 250: the farmhand who becomes one of Scotland\u2019s greatest storytellers and details his life, career and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":2375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-literature"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6318,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions\/6318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}