{"id":148557,"date":"2026-02-09T05:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T05:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/148557\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T05:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T05:51:10","slug":"tallahassee-hosts-the-fourth-annual-highland-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/148557\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallahassee hosts the Fourth Annual Highland Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leon County&#8217;s Apalachee Regional Park hosted the 2026 Highland Games over the weekend. It was a grand and glorious celebration of all things Scottish.<\/p>\n<p>There was Scottish music, Scotch whiskey, Scottish kilts, even Scottish cows. And amongst it all, &#8220;Irish Ann.&#8221; She owns an Irish curio shop in Homosassa Springs and said her non-Scottish heritage wasn&#8217;t a problem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, not at all. We&#8217;re all Celts!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tallahassee&#8217;s original Highland Games fizzled out several years back. But four years ago, Ryan May and like-minded supporters revived the festival.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s become a really great family event, community folks having fun, a little bit of everything here!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Long-haired Highland cows were among the more popular attractions at the event.\"  width=\"880\" height=\"495\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770616270_508_.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    Long-haired Highland cows were among the more popular attractions at the event. <\/p>\n<p>There was a turnout of thousands to watch the national caber-tossing championship and world&#8217;s strongest stone lifter contest, as well as celebrating a weekend when everyone is at least a little bit Celtic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leon County&#8217;s Apalachee Regional Park hosted the 2026 Highland Games over the weekend. It was a grand and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-148557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-tallahassee","9":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","10":"tag-tallahassee-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}