{"id":221,"date":"2016-09-11T15:48:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T15:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackstitches.com\/?p=221"},"modified":"2016-09-11T15:48:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T15:48:59","slug":"team-mascots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Team Mascots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Rosie-and-Sammy-at-the-beach.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-222\" src=\"http:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Rosie-and-Sammy-at-the-beach.jpg\" alt=\"rosie-and-sammy-at-the-beach\" width=\"199\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Rosie-and-Sammy-at-the-beach.jpg 720w, https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Rosie-and-Sammy-at-the-beach-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Rosie-and-Sammy-on-the-Western-Isles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-223\" src=\"http:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Rosie-and-Sammy-on-the-Western-Isles.jpg\" alt=\"rosie-and-sammy-on-the-western-isles\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Rosie-and-Sammy-on-the-Western-Isles.jpg 960w, https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Rosie-and-Sammy-on-the-Western-Isles-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rosie is wearing the Lord Roseberry colours used by Heart of Midlothian as their away colours. The owner of this mascot also follows St Johnstone. On this occasion they were taken away for a few days to the Western Isles where much fried breakfasts were consumed and the weather was warm enough to sunbathe and paddle in the sea<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Wee-Crunchie-with-pre-match-pint.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-226\" src=\"http:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Wee-Crunchie-with-pre-match-pint.png\" alt=\"wee-crunchie-with-pre-match-pint\" width=\"172\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Wee-Crunchie-with-pre-match-pint.png 720w, https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Wee-Crunchie-with-pre-match-pint-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Wee-Crunchie-and-Fergus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-225\" src=\"http:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Wee-Crunchie-and-Fergus.jpg\" alt=\"wee-crunchie-and-fergus\" width=\"196\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Wee-Crunchie-and-Fergus.jpg 960w, https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Wee-Crunchie-and-Fergus-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Wee-Crunchie-and-Fergus-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/child-friendly-bairn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-227\" src=\"http:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/child-friendly-bairn.jpg\" alt=\"child-friendly-bairn\" width=\"237\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/child-friendly-bairn.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/child-friendly-bairn-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/child-friendly-bairn-1024x640.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next was Wee Crunchie ( I think that needs explained by the Falkirk fans). On his first outing Wee Crunchie was taken for a pre match pint and then sat beside some local dignitaries and season ticket holders for the game. Afterwards he met the real Mascot Fergus. Not quite sure what Fergus made of this impostor. Was he thinking post match snack?<\/p>\n<p>BTW. a child friendly version of Wee Crunchie was made for a new Falkirk fan who is arriving soon<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/St-Johnstone-and-Man-U.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-224\" src=\"http:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/St-Johnstone-and-Man-U.jpg\" alt=\"st-johnstone-and-man-u\" width=\"225\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not to be out done by her work colleague an order was put in for another St Johnstone and a Manchester United for Pam&#8217;s granchildren<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-229\" src=\"http:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dundee-United1.jpg\" alt=\"dundee-united\" width=\"220\" height=\"353\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and another grandparent ordered up a Dundee United mascot for her grandson.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yarn is on it&#8217;s way for an Alloa Athletic mascot. We are shortly going international as there has been a request for a mascot for an Australian Rugby team and a mascot for the Norwegian team Fredrikstad. This has fair snowballed from a jokey comment from one facebook friend to another. It&#8217;s all be good clean fun though<\/p>\n<p>p.s. there has been talk of Scotland team mascots&#8230;&#8230;.shhhhh<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosie is wearing the Lord Roseberry colours used by Heart of Midlothian as their away colours. The owner of this mascot also follows St Johnstone. On this occasion they were taken away for a few days to the Western Isles where much fried breakfasts were consumed and the weather was warm enough to sunbathe and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}