{"id":397,"date":"2013-10-04T18:21:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T16:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.wordpress.com\/?p=397"},"modified":"2013-10-04T18:21:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T16:21:10","slug":"dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"Dublin &#8211; Never let the truth get in the way of a good story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Dublin, the <em>black pool<\/em>, is not as dark and doomy as it sounds.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-801 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/rsz_dsc09036.jpg?w=480\" alt=\"rsz_dsc09036\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">If you are a Starwars fan, the library should look familiar to you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Ireland is full of stories, and they keep true to their motto (see heading). At the <strong>O&#8217;Connell Bridge<\/strong>, you can see a commemorate plaque that reads as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">T<small>HIS PLAQUE COMMEMORATES<\/small><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">F<small>R.<\/small> P<small>AT<\/small> N<small>OISE<\/small><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">ADVISOR TO P<small>EADAR<\/small> C<small>LANCEY<\/small>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">H<small>E DIED UNDER SUSPICIOUS<br \/>\nCIRCUMSTANCES WHEN HIS<br \/>\nCARRIAGE PLUNGED INTO THE<\/small><br \/>\nL<small>IFFEY<\/small> <small>ON AUGUST 10TH 1919.<\/small><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">ERECTED BY THE HSTI<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">The plaque is a hoax but the Irish liked it so much that they left it there. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">At <strong>Christchurch Cathedral<\/strong>, I found Tom &amp; Jerry lying next to each other peacefully. Poor chaps got stuck in an organ pipe while chasing each other.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-796\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/dsc091861.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"dsc09186\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_858\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-858\" class=\"wp-image-858\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/rsz_dsc09211.jpg?w=768\" alt=\"rsz_dsc09211\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">the Famine Memorial at the River Liffey<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-798\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/dsc092061.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"dsc09206\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_799\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-799\" class=\"wp-image-799\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/dsc092091.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"dsc09209\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-799\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Merrion Square Park with statue of writer Oscar Wilde in the background<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dublin, the black pool, is not as dark and doomy as it sounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[589],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/rsz_dsc09189.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}