{"id":137264,"date":"2024-12-15T09:43:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T02:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=137264"},"modified":"2024-12-15T09:43:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T02:43:45","slug":"why-do-all-olympic-curling-stones-come-from-a-small-scottish-island-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=137264","title":{"rendered":"Why do all Olympic curling stones come from a small Scottish island? | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1OIQNlEpykw?autoplay=1&#038;cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>For more than 170 years, a small Scottish business has been crafting curling stones by hand using rock found on an island off the country\u2019s west coast.<\/p>\n<p>Kays Scotland is the only company in the world accredited to produce the stones used for Olympic and World Championships matches.<\/p>\n<p>The granite &#8211; thought to be some of the strongest and densest ever discovered &#8211; is harvested from the island of Ailsa Craig roughly once every decade.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Curling #Scotland #BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1OIQNlEpykw\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than 170 years, a small Scottish business has been crafting curling stones by hand using rock found on an island off the country\u2019s west coast. Kays Scotland is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=137264\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}