{"id":306,"date":"2009-03-17T16:04:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T21:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2009-03-17T16:17:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T21:17:25","slug":"pseudo-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Pseudo-celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I completely acknowledge that St Patrick&#8217;s Day is a fairly modern made-up holiday. And yet, I enjoy it. I&#8217;m wearing green, listening to Irish music, and will eventually get around to drinking Tully. I&#8217;m even of Irish ancestry, and year-round, not just today.<\/p>\n<p>While walking to work this morning, I was entertained by a piper. At 8am. Accompanied by a couple early risers waiting for the bar to open. (Heavy-drinking college town.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/pipes20090317.jpg\" alt=\"piper\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you see this on the 17th and would care to join me for some Irish music, Paul and Lorraine are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/channel\/paul-and-lorraine\">streaming their gig<\/a> (until midnight CDT), courtesy of the nice folks at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterstreetinn.us\">Water Street Inn<\/a> in Stillwater, MN. If you are ever in MN and need a place to stay, or eat, or visit the pub, they&#8217;re the ones.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/poppet20090317.jpg\" alt=\"poppet\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Poppet, as always, is fascinated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I completely acknowledge that St Patrick&#8217;s Day is a fairly modern made-up holiday. And yet, I enjoy it. I&#8217;m wearing green, listening to Irish music, and will eventually get around to drinking Tully. I&#8217;m even of Irish ancestry, and year-round, not just today. While walking to work this morning, I was entertained by a piper. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bands","category-poppetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}