{"id":201,"date":"2008-03-09T20:43:17","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T19:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/09\/required-reading-for-ex-pats-in-ireland\/"},"modified":"2008-03-09T20:43:17","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T19:43:17","slug":"required-reading-for-ex-pats-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/09\/required-reading-for-ex-pats-in-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Required Reading for Ex-pats in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before we moved to Ireland, our good friend and frequent commentor Dave gave me a copy of The Lonely Planet&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Irish-Language-Culture-Lonely-Planet\/dp\/1740595777\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1205073166&#038;sr=8-1\">Irish Language and Culture<\/a>. The book, unlike a tourist guide, goes into lifestyle and society, sport, slang and entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>For many months, I would read a little bit about Ireland before I went to bed. It helped give me insight into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaa.ie\/\">Gaelic Games<\/a>, helped me memorize <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Irish_provinces\">the four provinces<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Irish_counties_by_population\">the 32 counties<\/a>. I also picked up several classic Irish phrases, included &#8220;You&#8217;re grand,&#8221; &#8220;No bother at all,&#8221; and &#8220;Jaysus!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a big thank you to Dave for the book. Now that Will and I have finished it, it will move to a place of honor in the guest room, so all our visitors can have the opportunity to learn just a little bit more about the country they are visiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before we moved to Ireland, our good friend and frequent commentor Dave gave me a copy of The Lonely Planet&#8217;s Irish Language and Culture. The book, unlike a tourist guide, goes into lifestyle and society, sport, slang and entertainment. For many months, I would read a little bit about Ireland before I went to bed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,11,9,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}