{"id":3131,"date":"2015-08-07T21:49:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T19:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=3131"},"modified":"2015-08-07T21:49:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T19:49:41","slug":"from-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2015\/08\/07\/from-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"From Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the Saturday morning I got up for a solo breakfast at the hotel. Then we packed up and headed back out to the airport to pick up a car, and drove South to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenfarmireland.com\/granary_cottage.htm\">Granary Cottage<\/a> a few miles out of New Ross in County Wexford.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed our time in Dublin. The city felt strangely <em>familiar<\/em>. It reminded me a lot of various Scottish cities, particularly Perth (but scaled up) and Glasgow. The familiarity was a sense that I knew where every everything was going to be before I saw it. Like, &#8220;I&#8217;m sure there will be a supermarket if we turn right here.&#8221; A feeling that all the historical buildings were just in the right place, and all of the pubs could not have belonged anywhere else. It was curious, and very pleasant.<\/p>\n<p>I also found Dublin an extraordinarily friendly city. Just about every interaction we had was framed with a smile. Perhaps it was being on holiday that made me see everything in a positive light. The overall effect was to give me a very positive feeling about the place, and a desire to go back and spend more time there.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2015\/beer-beer-beer-pies-dublin.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" class \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dublin likes beer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2015\/we-sell-beer-dublin.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" class \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In case you hadn&#8217;t got the message<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Saturday morning I got up for a solo breakfast at the hotel. Then we packed up and headed back out to the airport to pick up a car, and drove South to the Granary Cottage a few miles out of New Ross in County Wexford. I enjoyed our time in Dublin. The city &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2015\/08\/07\/from-dublin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From Dublin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3133,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131\/revisions\/3133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}