{"id":360,"date":"2006-04-08T13:30:43","date_gmt":"2006-04-08T18:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=360"},"modified":"2006-04-08T13:30:43","modified_gmt":"2006-04-08T18:30:43","slug":"kissing-the-blarney-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"Kissing the Blarney Stone."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"p332\" rel=\"attachment\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?attachment_id=332\" title=\"blarneycastle.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image332\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/blarneycastle.jpg\" alt=\"blarneycastle.jpg\" \/><\/a><a id=\"p333\" rel=\"attachment\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?attachment_id=333\" title=\"nikbronderatblarneycastle.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image333\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/nikbronderatblarneycastle.jpg\" alt=\"nikbronderatblarneycastle.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today I visited the  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blarney_Castle\" TARGET=\"_top\">Blarney Castle<\/a> which is<br \/>\nabout 30 minutes from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cork\" TARGET=\"_top\">Cork, Ireland<\/a>.  The castle contains the<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blarney_Stone\" TARGET=\"_top\">Blarney Stone<\/a> which yours truly kissed.  As you can see in one<br \/>\nof the photographs below to kiss the stone involves hanging over the side of the castle upside down.  It&#8217;s not for the faint<br \/>\nof heart.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n *Note:  Click on the images below to view larger images.\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/019.jpg\" title=\"019.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image334\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/019.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"019.jpg\" \/><\/a><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/1301.jpg\" title=\"130.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image335\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/130.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"130.jpg\" \/><\/a><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/219.jpg\" title=\"219.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image336\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/219.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"219.jpg\" \/><\/a><a 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id=\"image359\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/oldmanblarney.jpg\" alt=\"oldmanblarney.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I referred to this guy as Ol&#8217; Man Blarney, since all he really did was hangout at the entrance to the castle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I visited the Blarney Castle which is about 30 minutes from Cork, Ireland. The castle contains the Blarney Stone which yours truly kissed. As you can see in one of the photographs below to kiss the stone involves hanging over the side of the castle upside down. It&#8217;s not for the faint of heart. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,19],"tags":[56,112,190],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-travel","tag-blarney-castle","tag-cork","tag-ireland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-5O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}