{"id":1602,"date":"2010-04-28T14:29:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T18:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/2010-global-fellows\/john-tormey-ireland\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T15:06:24","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T19:06:24","slug":"john-tormey-ireland","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/past-fellows\/2010-global-fellows\/john-tormey-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"John Tormey: Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>August 12, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To read more about John&#8217;s trip, please click <a href=\"http:\/\/jptormey.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>May 13, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<div id=\"attachment1980\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/files\/2010\/08\/john.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment1980\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1980\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/files\/2010\/08\/john-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"John Tormey: Ireland\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment1980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Tormey: Ireland<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I will be staying in the west of Ireland for the month of July. \u00a0Ireland has been part of my imagination since I was very young. \u00a0I grew up with stories from both sides of my family and how they came to America. \u00a0Now I have a chance to get to know the place they left behind a little better, learn a bit of the native language (Irish\/Gaelic), and do research for the novel I began writing this spring, part of which takes place in County Galway in the late 1950s. \u00a0It will be hard for me to spend so long away from my wife and young son, but I think the rewards will far exceed the cost. \u00a0I am very grateful for the chance to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 12, 2010 To read more about John&#8217;s trip, please click here. May 13, 2010 I will be staying in the west of Ireland for the month of July. \u00a0Ireland has been part of my imagination since I was very young. \u00a0I grew up with stories from both sides of my family and how they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":320,"featured_media":0,"parent":1411,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1682,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1602\/revisions\/1682"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}