{"id":819,"date":"2004-05-12T09:40:01","date_gmt":"2004-05-12T13:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=819"},"modified":"2015-05-13T19:26:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T23:26:26","slug":"speaking-of-geekiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=819","title":{"rendered":"100th Anniversary of Bloomsday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0394743121&#038;asins=0394743121&#038;linkId=FJFI5DBULWJHCQ5Z&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nThis year is the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday.  So &#8230; as June 16th, 2004 approaches, get ready for the Joyce mania. <\/p>\n<p>James Joyce made his entire book take place on that specific day as a tribute to Nora, his wife. <i>Ulysses<\/i> was published in 1922, but in 1904, on June 16, he had his first &#8220;date&#8221; with Nora, the wild Galway girl who would become his wife.  &#8220;Date&#8221;, of course, just meant that they walked together around Dublin.  But Joyce said, of that day, &#8220;She made a man of me.&#8221;  We can only guess at what happened that day, but it was important enough to Joyce that he made his entire masterpiece take place on that day, as a tribute to the woman who &#8220;made a man&#8221; out of him.<\/p>\n<p>And since then, Bloomsday has been celebrated in various ways.  People travel to Dublin, and wander through the streets, following the course of the book.  Etc.<\/p>\n<p>And this year is the 100th anniversary.  So it should be a good one!!<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0394743121&#038;asins=0394743121&#038;linkId=FJFI5DBULWJHCQ5Z&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year is the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday. So &#8230; as June 16th, 2004 approaches, get ready for the Joyce mania. James Joyce made his entire book take place on that specific day as a tribute to Nora, his wife. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=819\">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":[28],"tags":[1581,566],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819"}],"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=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101339,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/101339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}