{"id":4636,"date":"2020-03-17T13:19:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T13:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4636"},"modified":"2020-03-17T13:19:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T13:19:57","slug":"saint-patrick-and-the-plague-of-the-pubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/saint-patrick-and-the-plague-of-the-pubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Patrick and the Plague of the Pubs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The pubs are shut – it’s not the guards – and we have no parade
\nCoronavirus is on the rampage, it has us all afraid,
\nIt will be a month of Sundays, everything closed everywhere
\nEven the Scrooge publicans for the common people care.<\/p>\n

We are all confined to barracks: for some that’s just a room
\nIt feels for a lot like a grave, their own living tomb,
\nBut all’s not bad, pollution’s down, and Greta herself is quiet
\nThis monthly shutdown does some good: maybe every year we should try it.<\/p>\n

Well all our drunken sinners who wouldn’t give up the booze for Lent
\nMust drink the stash they kept at home and with that be content
\nWe will beat this bloody virus, no matter what it takes,
\nA prayer to St Anthony wouldn’t hurt, to kick it out as he did the snakes!

\"St<\/a>
St Patrick’s new nemesis is the Coronavirus. Image from Facebook \/ Mareid<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The pubs are shut – it’s not the guards – and we have no parade Coronavirus is on the rampage, it has us all afraid, It will be a month of Sundays, everything closed everywhere Even the Scrooge publicans for the common people care. We are all confined to barracks: …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,3582,89,54],"tags":[4273,4274,4115],"class_list":["post-4636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs-in-ireland","category-faith","category-funny-poems","category-ireland","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-st-patrick","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-1cM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4327,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/feck-the-begrudgers-this-saint-patricks-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":4636,"position":0},"title":"Feck the Begrudgers this Saint Patricks Day!","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"17th March 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Saint Patrick or St Patty Which is real, which is plastic? 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