{"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":"<p>I get to the hostel I am staying at for the next tonight&#8217;s, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isaacs.ie\/\">Isaac&#8217;s<\/a>, eating some toast and marmalade and the first song to play when I sit down, &#8220;Nothing Compares 2 U.&#8221; Held my breath for something off Joshua follow to follow.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;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&#8217;s cold here. But I guess people don&#8217;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<p>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<p>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&#8217;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&#8217;ll probably feed the ducks in Stephens&#8217; Green:<\/p>\n<h3 itemprop=\"name\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8220;Dublin can be heaven with coffee at eleven and a stroll in Stephens&#8217; Green&#8221;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>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&#8217;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":"<p>I get to the hostel I am staying at for the next tonight&#8217;s, Isaac&#8217;s, eating some toast and marmalade and the first song to play when I sit down, &#8220;Nothing Compares 2 U.&#8221; Held my breath for something off Joshua follow to follow. I&#8217;m running on the hour and a half of sleep I got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/2013\/05\/dublin-stepping\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dublin Stepping<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}