{"id":2084,"date":"2012-12-25T12:36:36","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T20:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2012-12-25T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T06:48:00","slug":"a-treat-for-us-this-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2012\/12\/25\/a-treat-for-us-this-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"a treat for us this Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My sisters found a reel to reel tape in our Drayton Valley, AB home labeled \u201cGrandma Singing\u201d. One of them had the tape transcribed to a CD and I turned the file into mp3s. Here is my dear Irish Grandma singing Irish ballads from memory. I remember helping to record these, it had to be somewhere around 1969\/1970 when Grandma was in her late 70s.<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t heard my dear grandma\u2019s voice in nearly 40 years. What a blessing, thanks Maureen for taking the initiative on this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Alice-Doggart.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Alice Doggart\" alt=\"Alice Doggart\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Alice-Doggart_thumb.jpg\" width=\"162\" height=\"244\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/audio\/The_Dear_Little_Girl.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">The Dear Little Girl<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Dear Little Girl<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/audio\/The_Little_Irish_Colleen_in_Her_Old_Plaid_Shawl.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">The Little Irish Colleen with Her Old Plaid Shawl<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Little Irish Colleen with Her Old Plaid Shawl<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/audio\/Impudent_Barney_OHay.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Impudent Barney O\u2019Hay<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Impudent Barney O&#8217;Hay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sisters found a reel to reel tape in our Drayton Valley, AB home labeled \u201cGrandma Singing\u201d. One of them had the tape transcribed to a CD and I turned the file into mp3s. Here is my dear Irish Grandma singing Irish ballads from memory. I remember helping to record these, it had to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[35,104,74],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-xC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2086,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions\/2086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}