{"id":1865,"date":"2017-10-22T14:14:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T14:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/?p=1865"},"modified":"2017-10-22T14:14:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T14:14:52","slug":"in-roscommon-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/22\/in-roscommon-town\/","title":{"rendered":"In Roscommon Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is Friday Oct 20, 2017 and I bid adieu to Co. Sligo and Jay Kerins. I arrive at the home of Seamie &amp; Teresa and receive an exuberant welcome from Paco &amp; Zappy the pups. Great to catch up and Seamie is flat out with his deaconite in Elphin. Then onto Paula Kelly. Always joyful to see Paula as she runs a creche and her house is full of children. As it&#8217; Friday many Irish Catholics observe the day of fast which basically means no red meat. She prepares the most beautiful piece of salmon. I go off to see her mother Joanie McCourt aged 87. Huge changes in Joanie in a year. If her dementia was a sapling this year it is a full grown oak. She has left her home on main street and is in the Sacred Heart Home. Recognition and response is minimal but myself and the staff elicit a few smiles with mentions of Canada and her children.<\/p>\n<p>Now I am driving to Galway on the M5 motorways in a torrential deluge. Tropical storm Brian is imminent. I&#8217;m stuck behind a huge truck for miles as I hesitate to pass with my little Skoda with all the wind and spray from the truck. After the toll booth the sun comes out. I arrive in Renmore. Hello Rob &amp; Mary! They are also eating fish:fish choder. Yum!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is Friday Oct 20, 2017 and I bid adieu to Co. Sligo and Jay Kerins. I arrive at the home of Seamie &amp; Teresa and receive an exuberant welcome from Paco &amp; Zappy the pups. Great to catch up and Seamie is flat out with his deaconite in Elphin. Then onto Paula Kelly. Always&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/22\/in-roscommon-town\/\">Continue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[44,50,59,57,58,45,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banjo-lessons-edmonton","category-fiddle-lessons-edmonton","category-fiddler-edmonton","category-guitar-lessons-edmonton","category-mandolin-lessons-edmonton","category-music-lessons","category-ukulele-uke-lessons-edmonton"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phnddJ-u5","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1866,"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions\/1866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaythefiddler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}