{"id":377,"date":"2014-03-06T11:44:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T11:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/?p=377"},"modified":"2014-04-03T17:58:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T17:58:30","slug":"the-sportsmans-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"The Sportsmans Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_2309.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-378\" alt=\"IMG_2309\" src=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_2309-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_2309-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_2309-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_2309-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was a little skeptical of this pub, but Bret wanted to try it out, so we went to watch the Monday night football game (Man City vs Chelsea) and have a pint.\u00a0 It is a pretty sizable pub, so we walked in fairly unnoticed and grabbed a corner seat with a good view of the game.\u00a0 The crowd here is still a bit older than us, but fairly young.\u00a0 There was a large crowd in the back of the bar playing cards.\u00a0 The first half of the game was fairly uneventful&#8230; but some new folks arrived for the second half that spiced things up.\u00a0 They clearly had some from another pub and were very interested in the game.\u00a0 There was a lot of swearing, a lot of yelling at the guys who was swearing (telling him to stop swearing), and a lot of apologizing for the swearing (not from the guy who was swearing).\u00a0 Apparently, I have innocent ears.\u00a0 Bret and I just grinned and nodded and kept watching the game.<\/p>\n<p>I would have given the Sportsman&#8217;s Arms a fairly low review for being a bit boring if we had left after the first half, but I thoroughly enjoyed the people watching (and hearing, I guess) in the second half.\u00a0 I would definitely go back to this one for big games&#8230;\u00a0 although I would want to get there early to get a good seat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a little skeptical of this pub, but Bret wanted to try it out, so we went to watch the Monday night football game (Man City vs Chelsea) and have a pint.\u00a0 It is a pretty sizable pub, so we walked in fairly unnoticed and grabbed a corner seat with a good view of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cork","category-pubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}