{"id":383,"date":"2004-09-26T06:56:16","date_gmt":"2004-09-26T14:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=383"},"modified":"2006-10-17T18:58:15","modified_gmt":"2006-10-17T22:58:15","slug":"celtic-harp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/09\/26\/celtic-harp\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Harp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Caera walked in and sat down on the piano bench with her Celtic Harp, I thought, <i>Boy does she look Irish.<\/i> Irish like Eileen Foley, with black hair and blues eyes. When she sang in Gaelic, I thought, <i>I wonder how long she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been in this country<\/i>. After a song or two she talked about having just flown back from Ireland where she played in a village of Gaelic speakers. She wanted so badly to go back, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d even written a sad song about her longings. I thought to myself, <i>Why not just go home? <\/i><\/p>\n<p>I was so enamored by this Irish musician &#8211; I guess I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d been traveling vicariously with Susan- that my brain almost seized when, about midway through her gig, she said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My first trip to Ireland was five years ago after I began exploring my heritage. After all, three out of my four grandparents are Irish.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"caera_sm.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/caera_sm.jpg\" width=\"216\" height=\"301\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/caera.html\">View larger image<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"flo_sm.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/flo_sm.jpg\" width=\"216\" height=\"293\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n Flo told Caera about her own daughter&#8217;s fascination with Ireland (Diane chimed in with, &#8220;She too has three Irish grandparents&#8221;) and after the recital, Flo hurried up to her room, and returned to show Caera Susan&#8217;s printed itinerary.   <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lois.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/lois.jpg\" width=\"216\" height=\"296\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nFlo&#8217;s friend, Lois, enjoying the music, but secretly wishing Caera would sing in French.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Caera walked in and sat down on the piano bench with her Celtic Harp, I thought, Boy does she look Irish. Irish like Eileen Foley, with black hair and blues eyes. When she sang in Gaelic, I thought, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/09\/26\/celtic-harp\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}