{"id":3715,"date":"2017-05-07T17:29:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T16:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=3715"},"modified":"2017-05-07T17:29:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T16:29:19","slug":"keep-the-beat-of-galway-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/keep-the-beat-of-galway-playing\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep the Beat of Galway Playing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version=\"7\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:8px;\">\n<div style=\" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;\">\n<div style=\" background:url(data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC\/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5\/P8\/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo\/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI\/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf\/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BTKe4jYFHSP\/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\">#street #music from @gstreetclub again today&#8230; #thisisgalway #wildatlanticway #culture<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A post shared by Thomas Carty (@tomjcarty) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2017-04-21T22:15:00+00:00\">Apr 21, 2017 at 3:15pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>To sing a song is a beautiful thing<br \/>\nTo sing as best you can<br \/>\nTo the enjoyment of the passer by<br \/>\nFrom tourist to the Travelling man&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Some give a little, more non at all<br \/>\nBut some have hard bad hearts<br \/>\nThe streets commercial comes the cry<br \/>\nSo their campaign starts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Some folk still live hear then more shout<br \/>\nTheir children cannot sleep<br \/>\nWell the homeless in the doorways do not complain<br \/>\nThat awake the music them does keep!<\/p>\n<p>Some say the noise is too loud<br \/>\nSome say some singers have no skill<br \/>\nIts not the quality or the noise&#8230;<br \/>\nIts busking they want to kill&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Make it acoustic by all means<br \/>\nBut keep busking on the street<br \/>\nIts what gives atmosphere to the city, not department stores<br \/>\nBusking is Galway cities beat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#street #music from @gstreetclub again today&#8230; #thisisgalway #wildatlanticway #culture A post shared by Thomas Carty (@tomjcarty) on Apr 21, 2017 at 3:15pm PDT To sing a song is a beautiful thing To sing as best you can To the enjoyment of the passer by From tourist to the Travelling man&#8230; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1651],"tags":[3626,783,3628,2025,3627],"class_list":["post-3715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gander-around-galway","tag-busking","tag-galway-city-council","tag-galway-street-club","tag-shop-street","tag-street-music","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-XV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3196,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-hair-brained-fight-the-hair-braiders\/","url_meta":{"origin":3715,"position":0},"title":"The Hair Brained Fight the Hair Braiders","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"7th October 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"One arm of Galway City Council commissioned a derelict wall to be painted by a professional graffiti artist as the 2020 City of Culture judges were coming, another then demanded it was removed, in a farce that shows how the arts scene in Galway is in the state its in.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Civil Rights&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Civil Rights","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/civil-rights\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Shop Street in Galway city centre the infamous graffitti mural is on the left","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Shop-Street-in-Galway-City-Centre-the-infamous-graffitti-mural-is-on-the-left.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Shop-Street-in-Galway-City-Centre-the-infamous-graffitti-mural-is-on-the-left.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Shop-Street-in-Galway-City-Centre-the-infamous-graffitti-mural-is-on-the-left.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Shop-Street-in-Galway-City-Centre-the-infamous-graffitti-mural-is-on-the-left.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2313,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/treasure-sleeps-on-chest-of-all-she-needs\/","url_meta":{"origin":3715,"position":1},"title":"Treasure Sleeps on Chest of All She Needs","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"21st September 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"There is a lot of \"we must look after our own first\" going around now that the refuggees from Syria are on their way. 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