{"id":68537,"date":"2013-06-17T08:39:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T12:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=68537"},"modified":"2013-06-17T08:41:07","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T12:41:07","slug":"cheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=68537","title":{"rendered":"Cheating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/9067686908_ea7d7bc179_z.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/9067686908_ea7d7bc179_z.jpg\" alt=\"9067686908_ea7d7bc179_z\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/9067686908_ea7d7bc179_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/9067686908_ea7d7bc179_z-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/9067686908_ea7d7bc179_z-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/9067686908_ea7d7bc179_z-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nIf James Joyce had met Nora Barnacle on June 15, then Bloomsday would be on June 15.  But, as it happens, James and Nora went out walking through Dublin on June 16.  That is why Bloomsday is celebrated on the 16th.  Got it?  <\/p>\n<p>I posted this photo on Facebook to express my annoyance.  My mother and my sisters showed up to commiserate.  The conversation went as follows.<\/p>\n<p>Me:  It would be like celebrating July 4 on July 3.<br \/>\nMum: ????<br \/>\nSiobhan: Totally cheating. It&#8217;s not on freaking June 15th!<br \/>\nMe:  Exactly!!<br \/>\nJean: Hate this!<br \/>\nJean:  They should at least say &#8220;Bloomsday Eve&#8221;&#8230;<br \/>\nMe: I haven&#8217;t seen so many annoyed O&#8217;Malley siblings in one place since they re-worded the Nicene Creed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If James Joyce had met Nora Barnacle on June 15, then Bloomsday would be on June 15. But, as it happens, James and Nora went out walking through Dublin on June 16. That is why Bloomsday is celebrated on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=68537\">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":[28],"tags":[1581,1101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68537"}],"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=68537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68540,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68537\/revisions\/68540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}