{"id":6689,"date":"2012-08-13T04:42:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T04:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/?p=6689"},"modified":"2012-08-13T04:42:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T04:42:52","slug":"golden-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2012\/08\/13\/golden-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday was a fantastic day. Katie Taylor took the Olympic gold medal in Women&#8217;s Boxing for Ireland and Se\u00e1n B\u00e1n Breathnach expressed it like no other. Invoking the poets and presidents. Go hiontach ar fad!<\/p>\n<p>The same day I learned I was on P22 of the Irish Echo talking about Malarky &#8212; a great day. Very special. I grew up on diaspora newspapers and the Readers Digest. (The Readers Digest in the US also wrote a lovely review of Malarky) Some years ago I traveled to the NYPL to look up the Irish Echo from 1963 specifically to read some community listings in the back of it. Why did I go that far? Because the paper was not available on microfiche or obtainable so if I wanted to see it, I had to go to NY. So it&#8217;s lovely to think that things have come the full circle. There&#8217;s something very Gertrude Stein about circles. More of them please!<\/p>\n<p>I leave it to SBB.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dgMicT1GFaY&amp;w=560&amp;h=315]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday was a fantastic day. Katie Taylor took the Olympic gold medal in Women&#8217;s Boxing for Ireland and Se\u00e1n B\u00e1n Breathnach expressed it like no other. Invoking the poets and presidents. Go hiontach ar fad! The same day I learned I was on P22 of the Irish Echo talking about Malarky &#8212; a great day. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[631,671,748,752,1034],"class_list":["post-6689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-irish-echo","tag-katie-taylor","tag-malarky","tag-malarky-novel","tag-sean-ban-breathnach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}