{"id":3694,"date":"2019-12-09T16:59:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T16:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=3694"},"modified":"2019-12-10T17:18:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:18:22","slug":"buille-na-bachaille","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=3694","title":{"rendered":"Buille na bachaille"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A belt of the crozier&nbsp; <\/strong>(Comhar \u2013 Aibre\u00e1n 2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur Snake who art in heaven,\u201d   * <br>I used to pray in all innocence<br>every day at school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t much time<br>for St Patrick.<br>I was happy enough with the day off school, of course,<br>and even better,<br>I loved the sweets<br>we were allowed eat on that Special Day,<br>a dispensation from the lenten fasting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as well as that,<br>apart from my unintentional,<br>Natural Heresy,<br>I felt the stories<br>that came before Patrick<br>were far better than those that came after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And another thing,<br>the priests were always so certain,<br>so<em> positive,<\/em><br>\u2013 which seemed odd to me,<br>because every time I looked<br>at a bishop&#8217;s crozier,<br>all I could see<br>was a question mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*[<em>Our Father<\/em> and <em>Our Snake<\/em> sound the same in Irish]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A belt of the crozier&nbsp; (Comhar \u2013 Aibre\u00e1n 2019) \u201cOur Snake who art in heaven,\u201d * I used to pray in all innocenceevery day at school. I hadn&#8217;t much timefor St Patrick.I was happy enough with the day off school, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=3694\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":903,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P36zMW-XA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3700,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3694\/revisions\/3700"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}