{"id":15095,"date":"2015-03-19T12:55:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T12:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=15095"},"modified":"2015-03-19T12:55:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T12:55:53","slug":"rosita-sweetman-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=15095","title":{"rendered":"Rosita Sweetman Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8216;The past is a foreign country: They do things differently there&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On 9th\u00a0March 2015 Rosita Sweetman, author of \u2018Father\u2019s Come First\u2019 was a guest on the Senior Citizen\u00a0Show. Hosted by Hazel Abdulla and Nell Fitzpatrick this week\u2019s show marked International Women\u2019s\u00a0Day. Sweetman\u2019s novel was first published more than 40 years ago and was reissued by Lilliput last\u00a0year. Sweetman joined Hazel and Nell to discuss the changes ( politically, socially and legally ) that have\u00a0taken place for women in Ireland over these decades.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9024\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Rositasweetman.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('9024','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Rositasweetman.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Rositasweetman.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=15095-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Rositasweetman.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Rositasweetman.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 7:38 &#8212; 10.5MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The past is a foreign country: They do things differently there&#8217; On 9th\u00a0March 2015 Rosita Sweetman, author of \u2018Father\u2019s Come First\u2019 was a guest on the Senior Citizen\u00a0Show. Hosted by Hazel Abdulla and Nell Fitzpatrick this week\u2019s show marked International Women\u2019s\u00a0Day. Sweetman\u2019s novel was first published more than 40 years ago and was reissued by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9025\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Rositasweetman.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('9025','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Rositasweetman.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Rositasweetman.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=15095-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Rositasweetman.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Rositasweetman.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 7:38 &#8212; 10.5MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3334],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-senior-citizens-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15095"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15098,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15095\/revisions\/15098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}