{"id":4886,"date":"2016-12-31T08:08:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T16:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=4886"},"modified":"2016-12-30T22:35:23","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T06:35:23","slug":"blessings-for-you-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/31\/blessings-for-you-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessings for you in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve hit the road with the fam to recharge the spiritual batteries before heading into the new year, throttling back the blogging just a bit.\u00a0As we reflect on what\u2019s happened &amp; what\u2019s to come, here&#8217;s a traditional Irish blessing I\u2019ve always loved:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<em><\/p>\n<p><em>May the road rise up to meet you.<br \/>May the wind be always at your back.<br \/>May the sun shine warm upon your face;<br \/>the rains fall soft upon your fields; and until we meet again,<br \/>may God hold you in the palm of His hand.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My alma mater\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1BwrFLlJW4Y\">used it quite nicely<\/a> in an ad a couple of years back.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the mordant Irish wit is best expressed in a different toast:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<em><\/p>\n<p><em>May those that love us, love us.<br \/>For those that don\u2019t love us,<br \/>May God turn their hearts.<br \/>And if He doesn\u2019t turn their hearts,<br \/>May He turn their ankles,<br \/>So we\u2019ll know them by their limping.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Slainte (cheers),<br \/>J.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NewImage-27.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"599\" height=\"543\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve hit the road with the fam to recharge the spiritual batteries before heading into the new year, throttling back the blogging just a bit.\u00a0As we reflect on what\u2019s happened &amp; what\u2019s to come, here&#8217;s a traditional Irish blessing I\u2019ve always loved: May the road rise up to meet you.May the wind be always at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4889,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions\/4889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}