{"id":7085,"date":"2007-09-28T08:56:33","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T12:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7085"},"modified":"2010-07-18T06:46:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T10:46:33","slug":"had-drinks-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7085","title":{"rendered":"The Galway Hooker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had drinks last night at a bar called &#8220;The Galway Hooker&#8221;.  (There is, of course, a nice double entendre in the name &#8211; Galway Hooker is a BOAT but the immediate impression of &#8220;hooker&#8221; is not, shall we say, a boat!)<\/p>\n<p>I was laughing later with my friend about it &#8211; about how offensive that really is, if you think about it in terms of &#8220;hooker&#8221; being &#8220;prostitute&#8221; &#8211; (and also how funny).  We were laughing about it &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean, it would be like being in a foreign country and seeing a bar called New York Sluts.  Or Cleveland Whores.  &#8216;Hey, want to meet up for a drink later?&#8217;  &#8216;Sure, let&#8217;s go to Happy Hour at Chattanooga Bitch-Ass Losers.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had drinks last night at a bar called &#8220;The Galway Hooker&#8221;. (There is, of course, a nice double entendre in the name &#8211; Galway Hooker is a BOAT but the immediate impression of &#8220;hooker&#8221; is not, shall we say, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7085\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085"}],"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=7085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22377,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085\/revisions\/22377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}