{"id":721,"date":"2025-03-17T15:23:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T15:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/?p=721"},"modified":"2025-03-17T15:24:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T15:24:01","slug":"mm-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/2025\/03\/17\/mm-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"MM &#8211; 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tim Finnegan&#039;s Wake\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bRXWWZ74Qe8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In the ballad, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brick_hod\">hod-carrier<\/a>\u00a0Tim Finnegan, born &#8220;with a love for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liquor\">liquor<\/a>&#8220;, falls from a ladder,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Skull_fracture\">breaks his skull<\/a>, and is thought to be dead. The mourners at his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wake_(ceremony)\">wake<\/a>\u00a0become rowdy, and spill\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poteen\">whiskey<\/a>\u00a0over Finnegan&#8217;s corpse, causing him to come back to life and join in the celebrations. Whiskey causes both Finnegan&#8217;s fall and his resurrection\u2014<em>whiskey<\/em>\u00a0is derived from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Irish_language\">Irish<\/a>\u00a0phrase\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uisce_beatha\">uisce beatha<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(pronounced\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:IPA\/Irish\">[\u02c8\u026a\u0283c\u0259\u00a0\u02c8b\u02b2ah\u0259]<\/a>), meaning &#8220;water of life&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the ballad, the\u00a0hod-carrier\u00a0Tim Finnegan, born &#8220;with a love for the\u00a0liquor&#8220;, falls from a ladder,\u00a0breaks his skull, and is thought to be dead. The mourners at his\u00a0wake\u00a0become rowdy, and spill\u00a0whiskey\u00a0over Finnegan&#8217;s corpse, causing him to come back to life and join in the celebrations. Whiskey causes both Finnegan&#8217;s fall and his resurrection\u2014whiskey\u00a0is derived from the\u00a0Irish\u00a0phrase\u00a0uisce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}