{"id":637,"date":"2003-09-16T12:59:36","date_gmt":"2003-09-16T17:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/637.html"},"modified":"2003-09-16T12:59:36","modified_gmt":"2003-09-16T17:59:36","slug":"remember-the-castle-in-monty-python-and-the-holy-grail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/remember-the-castle-in-monty-python-and-the-holy-grail\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember the castle in ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, this has nothing to do with politics, but it deals with something almost as important — Monty Python.<\/p>\n

If you know me personally, you know I’m a big Python fan. I’m one of those annoying freaks who knows pretty much the entire script to Holy Grail. <\/p>\n

If you’re like me, you’ll be pleased to know that the castle that plays prominently throughout the film is a real castle available for tourists in Scotland!<\/p>\n

As CNN reported<\/a> today, Doune Castle in Scotland receives thousands of visitors each year, many of which arrive simply to enjoy the castle’s role in the famous Python movie.<\/p>\n

Apparently, Doune Castle is considered the best-preserved medieval castle in Scotland. It was built at the end of the 14th century by Robert Stewart, the first Duke of Albany.<\/p>\n

Of course, Robert Stewart had no way of knowing over 600 years later, a bunch of geeks like me would be trouncing around his creation saying things like, “Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.”<\/p>\n

I was particularly pleased to read that George McWilliam, the castle’s manager, is a good sport about the Python fans’ fascination. He even provides visitors with coconut halves so they can imitate the sound made the troupe members in the movie.<\/p>\n

McWilliam told CNN that a group of Americans came last year to “re-enact much of the movie and shoot it as a home video.” They even — get this — used a toy coy to recreate the scene in which the French guards hurl a full-size cow at the Knights of the Round Table.<\/p>\n

I suddenly have a desire to fly to Glasgow…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, this has nothing to do with politics, but it deals with something almost as important — Monty Python. If you know me personally, you know I’m a big Python fan. I’m one of those annoying freaks who knows pretty much the entire script to Holy Grail. If you’re like me, you’ll be pleased to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}