{"id":741,"date":"2009-05-24T14:56:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T14:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/?p=741"},"modified":"2009-05-24T14:59:21","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T14:59:21","slug":"busy-busy-but-time-for-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/24\/busy-busy-but-time-for-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy, busy &#8212; but time for art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anita and I so busy that we&#8217;re just now watching the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurovision.tv\/\">Eurovision 2009 broadcasts<\/a> from last week. (Fantastacular!  Glorilicious!) Mostly, we&#8217;re preparing for the big move to Luxembourg in three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we completed a task 18 months in the making: we bought a lovely painting from one of the regular exhibitors on Sundays at Merrion Square. We&#8217;ve strolled around the park at midday on dozens of Sundays, knowing that we would leave Ireland with a souvenir someday. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Anita and I waited until the last possible Sunday, and it was the best time, too. The park was packed with the Dublin Soul Festival, and we met <a href=\"http:\/\/blanaidlynam.stugal.com\/\">Blanaid Lynam<\/a>, whose &#8220;Sunset (Dusk) Sandycove&#8221; will grace our future homes. <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blanaidlynam.stugal.com\/icons\/users\/90\/90_145_B.JPG\" title=\"Blanaid Lynams Sunset Sandycove\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"322\" height=\"244\" \/>We were glad to have met her, and we are very happy to have found (and most importantly, agreed upon) an ideal representation of our fondness for Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>I have a mile-long list of potential post topics about Ireland and Dublin. In a perfect world, I&#8217;d have time to work through them over the next three weeks. Alas, I must warn you: the posts may be sporadic in the month of June.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep making short remarks on the Bugle Tumblr, which is on the right sidebar (and you can follow it on its own webpage too). I&#8217;ll keep reading comments, and publish at least one post each week. But more than that? Anita and I can&#8217;t make any promises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anita and I so busy that we&#8217;re just now watching the Eurovision 2009 broadcasts from last week. (Fantastacular! Glorilicious!) Mostly, we&#8217;re preparing for the big move to Luxembourg in three weeks. Today, we completed a task 18 months in the making: we bought a lovely painting from one of the regular exhibitors on Sundays at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,8,7,5],"tags":[137,639,760,759,175,638,640,637,641],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741"}],"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=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}