{"id":197,"date":"2008-05-15T15:54:41","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T19:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/?p=197"},"modified":"2008-05-15T15:54:41","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T19:54:41","slug":"nyc-irish-famine-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2008\/05\/15\/nyc-irish-famine-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Irish Famine Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very unique design. It&#8217;s supposed to be a ruined house on a hill in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/timony\/2494736623\/\" title=\"NYC Irish Famine Memorial by bettlebrox, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3180\/2494736623_b6cbedb019_m.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" alt=\"NYC Irish Famine Memorial\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You walk around the base of the memorial, towards the water.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/timony\/2494687419\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3160\/2494687419_4153f9f855_t.jpg\" alt=\"NYC Irish Famine Memorial\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Go through a short tunnel, which has speakers playing the voices of people talking about the famine (including Bono).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/timony\/2495527966\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2394\/2495527966_50bab029d0_m.jpg\" alt=\"NYC Irish Famine Memorial\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And your in a ruined house.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/timony\/2495538008\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2265\/2495538008_c3771789c0_m.jpg\" alt=\"NYC Irish Famine Memorial\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYou walk out the front door of the house, and follow the path up the hill, past a grave, and a what to me looks like a fallow potato field (because of the mounds or ridges or riggs in the field).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/timony\/2495569094\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3038\/2495569094_a6eb3b9a0a_m.jpg\" alt=\"NYC Irish Famine Memorial\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a view from above, which should give you a better view of how it&#8217;s laid out.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/timony\/2494758521\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2054\/2494758521_67301979c2_m.jpg\" alt=\"NYC Irish Famine Memorial\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s even an overgrown garden out the back of the cottage.<\/p>\n<p>Really a very impressive memorial, hey was that&#8217;s Bono&#8217;s voice coming out the speakers. Sheesh, he&#8217;s on everything these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very unique design. It&#8217;s supposed to be a ruined house on a hill in Ireland. You walk around the base of the memorial, towards the water. Go through a short tunnel, which has speakers playing the voices of people talking about the famine (including Bono). And your in a ruined house. You walk out &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2008\/05\/15\/nyc-irish-famine-memorial\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NYC Irish Famine Memorial<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,29,40],"tags":[112,113,114,128,169,182,247,255,344,345,346,410,435,436,438,448,469],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland","category-photo","category-travel","tag-battery","tag-battery-park","tag-battery-park-city","tag-bono","tag-city","tag-cottage","tag-famine","tag-field","tag-ireland","tag-irish","tag-irish-famine-memorial","tag-memorial","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyorkcity","tag-nyc","tag-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}