{"id":9,"date":"2005-06-03T14:41:13","date_gmt":"2005-06-03T13:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2011-03-10T09:56:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T08:56:11","slug":"historical","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?page_id=9","title":{"rendered":"Irish Ego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>&#8220;After September 11, the Irish government contacted the British to request &#8216;Air Cover&#8217; in the event a terrorist should attempt to crash an airplane into buildings in Ireland.&#8221; <\/i><\/p>\n<p>This is not only funny, but a illustration of Irish Ego. <\/p>\n<p>Ego: <\/p>\n<p>\tThat Ireland is important enough to be a terrorist target.<\/p>\n<p>Humorous:<\/p>\n<p>\tA) Could a terrorist FIND Ireland through all of the Clouds.<\/p>\n<p>\tB) Once through the clouds, could they FIND a likely target<br \/>\n\t\t\t(Farmland, sheep, cows, pubs &#038; churches excluded(in order))<\/p>\n<p>\tC) If they managed to hit a city, town or village would the damage be noticed as<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t1) A new sewage works project?<br \/>\n\t\t\t2) A new Luas  line (Dublin)?<br \/>\n\t\t\t3) A new SuperPub?<br \/>\n\t\t\t4) A road project?<br \/>\n\t\t\t5) A terrorist act?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;After September 11, the Irish government contacted the British to request &#8216;Air Cover&#8217; in the event a terrorist should attempt to crash an airplane into buildings in Ireland.&#8221; This is not only funny, but a illustration of Irish Ego. Ego:<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?page_id=9\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Irish Ego<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2076,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/2076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}