{"id":5720,"date":"2017-03-17T09:01:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T14:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/?p=5720"},"modified":"2017-03-17T09:01:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T14:01:41","slug":"happy-st-patricks-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/happy-st-patricks-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy St. Patrick&#8217;s Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy St. Patrick&#8217;s Day! Much like Columbus Day, this day has very little to do with the actual historical St. Patrick. What we are actually celebrating are the good things that we Americans have gained thanks to Irish immigrants and (if we&#8217;re lucky) our Irish ancestors: an appreciation of good food, good friends, and good beer. These are things worth celebrating. If you want to go deeper with it, and celebrate more complex aspects of Irish culture and what we&#8217;ve gained from it, that&#8217;s great, too.<\/p>\n<p>If you use this as an excuse to complain about St. Patrick, the Catholic Church, or cultural stereotypes, you are missing the point.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Darby_Ogill_Albert_Sharpe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Darby_Ogill_Albert_Sharpe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"716\" height=\"540\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Darby_Ogill_Albert_Sharpe.jpg 716w, https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Darby_Ogill_Albert_Sharpe-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy St. Patrick&#8217;s Day! Much like Columbus Day, this day has very little to do with the actual historical St. Patrick. What we are actually celebrating are the good things that we Americans have gained thanks to Irish immigrants and (if we&#8217;re lucky) our Irish ancestors: an appreciation of good food, good friends, and good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,45,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-food","category-friends","category-philosophy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Happy St. Patrick&#039;s Day! - Blackmoor Vituperative<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/happy-st-patricks-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Happy St. Patrick&#039;s Day! - Blackmoor Vituperative\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Happy St. Patrick&#8217;s Day! 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