{"id":216,"date":"2008-08-23T16:01:43","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T20:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2008-08-23T16:01:43","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T20:01:43","slug":"old-donegal-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2008\/08\/23\/old-donegal-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Donegal Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I scanned some old postcards of Donegal Town that I borrowed from my Aunty Isabel. They&#8217;ve been pretty popular on flickr.com, with this one getting over 900 views:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Old Donegal Town Postcard by bettlebrox, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/timony\/3295779\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/3\/3295779_1c79565b63.jpg\" alt=\"Old Donegal Town Postcard\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this one getting over 1800 views:<br \/>\n<a title=\"Donegal Town: The Diamond 1973 by bettlebrox, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/timony\/109927099\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/35\/109927099_63426d83c0.jpg\" alt=\"Donegal Town: The Diamond 1973\" width=\"500\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both of these were taken sometime in the 1970&#8217;s and I can&#8217;t take credit for taking the pictures, that would have been <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Hinde_(photographer)\">John Hinde<\/a> or the postcard company he owned of the same name and sold in 1973 (right around the time these pictures were probably taken).<\/p>\n<p>I really like these pics, they&#8217;re very nostalgic for me as the the postcard themselve remind me my childhood, as these were sold around the town up to the late 1980&#8217;s (even after the center of town changed they made the center into an open plaza with any cars on it). I can barely remember the town looking like, I would have been 3 or 4?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I scanned some old postcards of Donegal Town that I borrowed from my Aunty Isabel. They&#8217;ve been pretty popular on flickr.com, with this one getting over 900 views: And this one getting over 1800 views: Both of these were taken sometime in the 1970&#8217;s and I can&#8217;t take credit for taking the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2008\/08\/23\/old-donegal-town\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Old Donegal Town<\/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":[53,10,19,29],"tags":[202,203,264,484],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donegal-ireland","category-flickr","category-ireland","category-photo","tag-donegal","tag-donegal-town","tag-flickr","tag-pics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}