{"id":1249,"date":"2009-04-02T06:58:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T11:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2009-04-02T06:58:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T11:58:12","slug":"what-the-boom-did-to-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1249","title":{"rendered":"What the boom did to Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dingle533.jpg' title='dingle533.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dingle533.jpg' alt='dingle533.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>New York Times: Dingle town and Dingle harbor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The New York Times on-line edition has a <a href=\"http:\/\/egan.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/01\/the-orphans-of-ireland\/\">little essay<\/a> this morning on what the boom did to Ireland. It left the countryside littered with tacky little houses that no one wants. There is a hidden cost in that, because it cost Ireland, and least in many places, its old Irish look.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the next boom turns out to be, let&#8217;s hope it isn&#8217;t something that eats land and lays down pavement.<\/p>\n<p>Dingle town, by the way, is fairly unchanged by the boom, as is the awesome stretch of road over Mount Brandon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times: Dingle town and Dingle harbor The New York Times on-line edition has a little essay this morning on what the boom did to Ireland. It left the countryside littered with tacky little houses that no one wants. There is a hidden cost in that, because it cost Ireland, and least in many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1249\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What the boom did to Ireland&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}