{"id":540,"date":"2013-05-13T12:49:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T10:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/?p=540"},"modified":"2013-05-15T13:40:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T11:40:39","slug":"dublin-stepping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/2013\/05\/dublin-stepping\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin Stepping"},"content":{"rendered":"

I get to the hostel I am staying at for the next tonight’s, Isaac’s<\/a>, eating some toast and marmalade and the first song to play when I sit down, “Nothing Compares 2 U.” Held my breath for something off Joshua follow to follow.<\/p>\n

I’m running on the hour and a half of sleep I got on the plane ride here; my flight left at 6:50 which meant I had to leave the house at four. It’s cold here. But I guess people don’t come to Dublin for the weather. What do they come here for? Whiskey? Guinness? I guess the reason I wanted to be here a few days before the rest of the company was for the Irish, the people.<\/p>\n

I went through a period in high school where I was fully enchanted by anything Irish, this was around the time the movie Far and Away came out. Not ashamed to say I fully enjoyed that movie. It was also a time that I would sit in my room burning incense and reading Ray Bradbury and Michael Crichton under my black light and glow-in-the-dark ceiling of stars with the Cranberries yodeling in the background of my consciousness at about the decibel level of a garbage disposal. I went through a similar phrase in college, albeit everything African.<\/p>\n

So, now I am In Ireland for the first time! I would love to travel the western part of the country and experience those cliffs(I will be back for that), but today and tomorrow I’ll get to know the city a little and its people and probably a bit of its whiskey. By recommendation of a genuine ginger Irish friend I’ll probably feed the ducks in Stephens’ Green:<\/p>\n

“Dublin can be heaven with coffee at eleven and a stroll in Stephens’ Green”<\/span><\/h3>\n

I already had a cup of coffee. Any more on this little sleep will just make me feel anxious. Now I wait for my laundry I couldn’t do yesterday since I came back from Holland in the late afternoon. Maybe I take a nap, like the girl on the couch. Gather, gather, gather steam for the pub crawl later tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I get to the hostel I am staying at for the next tonight’s, Isaac’s, eating some toast and marmalade and the first song to play when I sit down, “Nothing Compares 2 U.” Held my breath for something off Joshua follow to follow. I’m running on the hour and a half of sleep I got … Continue reading Dublin Stepping<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t