{"id":20794,"date":"2022-03-17T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T22:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=20794"},"modified":"2022-03-17T15:00:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T22:00:42","slug":"first-post-thursday-march-17-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2022\/03\/17\/first-post-thursday-march-17-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Thursday, March 17, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k2LOx4zKTcE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Happy Saint Patrick\u2019s Day 2022 to the faithful now, and we always think of The Bunnymen around this time of year, either because it\u2019s Holy Week or else because it reminds us of their concert on this date in 1988 in New Orleans; they were supporting the album shown here in the video lede. The representative song from it is apt for our times.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>That was a wild Saint Patrick\u2019s Day in 1988. No drinking because of Lent, but it still was too Irish-themed for sheer coincidence. Jm. Joyce would have had a field day, between the Modern Irish Literature class at the home of Dean Jm. F. Kilroy, reading Yeats in a circle with the button-nosed little Irish coed from Newcomb College picking \u2019An Irish Airman Foresees His Death\u2019 to recite, walking around campus after that, loitering in front of McAlister Auditorium before the concert, not knowing exactly what was in store, but just showing up anyway, then the stranger handed us the tickets with the backstage pass after he couldn\u2019t find someone to scalp them to, so in we went, for free, Ian McCulloch on stage, Will Sergeant playing a snatch from \u2018Irish Washerwoman\u2019 while McCulloch did a jig. Godsmacked. Jm. Joyce would have had a field day.&nbsp;Always remember certain dates in life, and so it is with Saint Patrick\u2019s Day every year. Luck o\u2019 the Irish.<\/p>\n<p>Need some of that Luck o\u2019 the Irish right about now; noncontenders showing-up in unwanted places (the winner\u2019s circle!) too much and making the touting ridiculous. Wake up! Rally! So here\u2019s to the <strong>fifth<\/strong>, <strong>sixth<\/strong> &amp; <strong>seventh<\/strong> <strong>tonight<\/strong> at <strong>Turfway<\/strong>. Bombs away&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Saint Patrick\u2019s Day 2022 to the faithful now, and we always think of The Bunnymen around this time of year, either because it\u2019s Holy Week or else because it reminds us of their concert on this date in 1988 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2022\/03\/17\/first-post-thursday-march-17-2022\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pavW5M-5po","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20802,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20794\/revisions\/20802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}