{"id":3548,"date":"2005-08-26T08:06:23","date_gmt":"2005-08-26T12:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2013-02-12T16:11:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T21:11:52","slug":"argh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3548","title":{"rendered":"The Ice Bar: Ronan Mullen Comments On My Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My piece on the Ice Bar in Dublin was the launching point for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.ie\/pport\/web\/opinion\/Full_Story\/did-sg01quZj-epjAsg7OWirIStPSk.asp\">this essay in the Irish Examiner.  <\/a>  (Thanks for the heads up, peteb!)<\/p>\n<p>The writer, Ronan Mullen writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ms O&#8217;Malley is keen to let us know that she is not sentimental about the old, poverty-stricken Ireland, but her account of the new, brash Irish, whose sense of self-worth depends entirely on their stock of material possessions, strikes a nerve. Most of us have encountered Seamus, or someone like him, during the last five years. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No link to my blog in the article &#8230; but hey, you can&#8217;t have everything!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My piece on the Ice Bar in Dublin was the launching point for this essay in the Irish Examiner. (Thanks for the heads up, peteb!) The writer, Ronan Mullen writes: Ms O&#8217;Malley is keen to let us know that she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3548\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[594,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548"}],"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=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64349,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions\/64349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}