{"id":134,"date":"2005-03-16T10:09:22","date_gmt":"2005-03-16T17:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guapacha.com\/?p=134"},"modified":"2005-03-16T10:09:22","modified_gmt":"2005-03-16T17:09:22","slug":"what-is-it-with-america-and-the-irish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"What is it with America and the Irish?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I should be writing this tomorrow but I will be back on a plane heading for England.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Every year I get frustrated by St Patricks Day here in the US. People wear green, dredge their family trees for a glimmer of Irish to justify it all, and then get drunk on piss poor beer. Why oh why is it such a big deal, what happened to the St Andrew&#8217;s day celebrations, poor St David, or any of the other countries that helped seed the US. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m just jealous that no one wants to be English, or perhaps that I don&#8217;t look good in green, or that I have no Irish in me (almost certainly being the offspring of raping vikings), but mostly I think its because of the piss poor beer. Whats a celebration without a decent beer? Note to Brian: send Tuppers \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should be writing this tomorrow but I will be back on a plane heading for England. Every year I get frustrated by St Patricks Day here in the US. People wear green, dredge their family trees for a glimmer of Irish to justify it all, and then get drunk on piss poor beer. Why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[164],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","tag-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}