{"id":14,"date":"2006-12-18T15:44:53","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T20:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/2006\/12\/18\/re-joyce-at-christmas\/"},"modified":"2006-12-20T23:20:45","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T04:20:45","slug":"re-joyce-at-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/2006\/12\/re-joyce-at-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-Joyce at Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent Sunday enjoying one of my favorite Christmas traditions. I curled up on the couch and re-read &#8220;The Dead,&#8221; the final story in James Joyce&#8217;s &#8220;The Dubliners.&#8221; I love the story because of its prose, its melacholy and its relative accessibility.<\/p>\n<p>But mostly I love it because it&#8217;s one of the few Joyce works in which he openly misses Ireland. Though he spent most his adulthood in bitter, self-imposed\u00c2 exile, &#8220;The Dead&#8221; allows Joyce to surrender himself to\u00c2 the longings\u00c2 of family, music and home during the holidays. If a cynic like Joyce can&#8217;t overcome Christmastime nostalgia, what chance do the rest of us have?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent Sunday enjoying one of my favorite Christmas traditions. I curled up on the couch and re-read &#8220;The Dead,&#8221; the final story in James Joyce&#8217;s &#8220;The Dubliners.&#8221; I love the story because of its prose, its melacholy and its relative accessibility. But mostly I love it because it&#8217;s one of the few Joyce works [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-the-irish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}