{"id":172,"date":"2008-01-22T16:29:06","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T15:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/22\/monday-on-the-street\/"},"modified":"2008-01-22T16:29:06","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T15:29:06","slug":"monday-on-the-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/22\/monday-on-the-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday on the street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday morning, I took <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willbakker\/sets\/72157603756557914\/\">more photos<\/a> of the jobsite, hoping for a lead. I found some interesting details, but I couldn&#8217;t get my head around them. I was still in a fog from the effects of an all-night stakeout for one of my other cases. So I went back to bed to sleep it off.<\/p>\n<p>As the sun set in the afternoon, I walked toward the seedier side of town, to follow a lead on the same case that kept me away from home last night. On the way, I stopped to talk to Old Patrick, one of the beggars that makes a meagre living from the softer emotions of the Irish who got lucky from the Celtic Tiger.<\/p>\n<p>He dropped his usual mumble and leaned in to speak:  &#8220;They say you&#8217;re looking into Fitzwilliam Square, like.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I knew the routine quite well. I found a crisp ten euro note in my wallet and I wrapped it around a cigarette. Old Patrick prefers that his presents be gift-wrapped. And everything costs more in Dublin these days.<\/p>\n<p>He laughed. &#8220;Well, I don&#8217;t know anyting yet, meself. But thanks a million for the smoke. I&#8217;ll keep one eye on the Fitz while yer doin&#8217; business. Com&#8217;ere &#8212; do ya wanta know what I tink is going on?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I knew that Old Patrick&#8217;s favorite game was spinning stories that started from a shred of truth and led to a few pints apiece at the nearest pub. That sounded like a good way to spend the rest of my day. But I had to make some progress on my bread-and-butter work, if I was going to have time for my unpaid moonlighting gig on Fitzwilliam Square.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday morning, I took more photos of the jobsite, hoping for a lead. I found some interesting details, but I couldn&#8217;t get my head around them. I was still in a fog from the effects of an all-night stakeout for one of my other cases. So I went back to bed to sleep it off. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}