{"id":13,"date":"2006-12-15T09:52:57","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T14:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/2006\/12\/15\/the-irish-drinking-culture\/"},"modified":"2006-12-20T23:14:49","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T04:14:49","slug":"the-irish-drinking-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/2006\/12\/the-irish-drinking-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"The Irish Drinking Culture???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you head to\u00c2 an American beach town, you will see Bob Marley and Irish Drinking t-shirts\u00c2 on sale\u00c2 at every vendor.\u00c2  On SaintPatricksDay, people\u00c2 across the\u00c2 globe\u00c2 gather together wearing green, making toasts,\u00c2 and getting hammered.\u00c2  A fact; God created beer to prevent the Irish from taking over\u00c2 the world.\u00c2  And everyone knows that the only difference between an Irish wedding and an Irish funeral is one less drunk.\u00c2 <\/p>\n<p>In many instances (too many???), when\u00c2 people\u00c2 think of the Irish, they\u00c2 associate it with the\u00c2 over consumption of alcohol.\u00c2  Folks are drawn to Irish culture because they\u00c2 link it with drinking and having a good time&#8230;but is this for better or worse?\u00c2  Is it something that Irish individuals\u00c2 should work to change or embrace?\u00c2  Is\u00c2 this a fair sterotype?\u00c2 \u00c2 Is this perspective an Irish-American one or do people around the world think similarly of the Irish?\u00c2 <\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you head to\u00c2 an American beach town, you will see Bob Marley and Irish Drinking t-shirts\u00c2 on sale\u00c2 at every vendor.\u00c2 On SaintPatricksDay, people\u00c2 across the\u00c2 globe\u00c2 gather together wearing green, making toasts,\u00c2 and getting hammered.\u00c2 A fact; God created beer to prevent the Irish from taking over\u00c2 the world.\u00c2 And everyone knows that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-irish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}