{"id":5241,"date":"2013-03-15T19:14:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T23:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5241"},"modified":"2013-03-15T19:14:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T23:14:23","slug":"this-is-what-youre-getting-or-st-patricks-day-and-youll-take-it-and-like-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5241","title":{"rendered":"This is what you&#039;re getting for St. Patrick&#039;s Day, and you&#039;ll take it and like it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Under protest,<\/strong> it goes without saying, because I&#8217;m afraid of the power of the Irish Lobby, I offer the following clip of the redoubtable Clancy Brothers &#038; Tommy Makem. It&#8217;s a song I&#8217;m particularly fond of &#8212; the kind that might not impress you on first acquaintance, but sticks in your mind after a couple repeats. I particularly like the line, &#8220;Castles are sacked in war, chieftains are scattered far &#8212; truth is a fix-ed star&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cyvM5yIupHM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now an Anthony Sacramone update:<\/strong> He sneaked back into <a href=\"http:\/\/strangeherring.com\/\">his blog<\/a> last week, tiptoeing with his shoes off, and did a post. Then he did another yesterday. So we&#8217;ve got that. He also links to the web page of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intercollegiatereview.com\/\">Intercollegiate Review<\/a>, where he&#8217;s got a very amusing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intercollegiatereview.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/11\/this-is-you-on-the-wrong-side-of-history\/\">cover story<\/a> right now:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Empire builders and revolutionaries, reformers and moral scolds, civil libertarians and uncivil prohibitionists\u2014all believe History is on their side. Beware anyone who imputes to History an inevitable, self-directed, Forward march, as if it were as fixed as a bar code, as predetermined as male-pattern baldness, as sovereign as any voluntaristic deity. Most risible are atheists, old or new, who act as if the expanding energies of a supposedly random and causeless Big Bang could even possess an ultimate purpose&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under protest, it goes without saying, because I&#8217;m afraid of the power of the Irish Lobby, I offer the following clip of the redoubtable Clancy Brothers &#038; Tommy Makem. It&#8217;s a song I&#8217;m particularly fond of &#8212; the kind that might not impress you on first acquaintance, but sticks in your mind after a couple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5241\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is what you&#039;re getting for St. Patrick&#039;s Day, and you&#039;ll take it and like it!<\/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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[2643],"class_list":["post-5241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-social-media","category-music","tag-st-patricks-day"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}