{"id":189429,"date":"2023-11-30T11:27:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T16:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=189429"},"modified":"2023-12-02T10:44:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T15:44:41","slug":"r-i-p-shane-macgowan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=189429","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Shane MacGowan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Image-12-1-23-at-11.19-AM-e1701447652741.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"621\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-189430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Image-12-1-23-at-11.19-AM-e1701447652741.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Image-12-1-23-at-11.19-AM-e1701447652741-161x200.jpeg 161w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Image-12-1-23-at-11.19-AM-e1701447652741-322x400.jpeg 322w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Image-12-1-23-at-11.19-AM-e1701447652741-81x100.jpeg 81w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s kind of amazing he held on this long, his life considered. My Instagram account has filled up with personal anecdotes &#8211; from my pal filmmaker Paul Duane, my friend Regina Bartkoff who saw him outside of CBGBs one night, from my friend Maria McKee (please seek out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thisismariamckee\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">her feed<\/a> if you are hurting about this death, as many I know are: I&#8217;ve found her memories and thoughts very comforting), from basically all the Irish people I know, all of whom seem to have met him at one point or another, and of course his fans worldwide. The Pogues were huge for me, and his voice &#8211; as it is wont to do &#8211; wormed its way into my soul, and never left. Once you hear it, you&#8217;re not the same again.  <\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NrAwK9juhhY?si=y0PvJXSLJjp3vth0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>\nThis week has featured one death to celebrate, one to mourn. Don&#8217;t speak ill of the dead? Fuck that. Take your middle-class niceties elsewhere. Take them to Cambodia or Chile, how &#8217;bout. I live in the real world, bitch, where actions have consequences and I&#8217;m not afraid to call evil by its proper name. <\/p>\n<p>Shane MacGowan, on the other hand, was a poet. And I will miss him very much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s kind of amazing he held on this long, his life considered. My Instagram account has filled up with personal anecdotes &#8211; from my pal filmmaker Paul Duane, my friend Regina Bartkoff who saw him outside of CBGBs one night, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=189429\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,23],"tags":[35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189429"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189439,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189429\/revisions\/189439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}