{"id":45288,"date":"2022-10-07T17:09:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T16:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=45288"},"modified":"2022-10-28T19:18:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T18:18:57","slug":"shea-walsh-talks-about-his-childrens-story-the-irish-experiences-of-bearly-able-and-gonzo-book-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=45288","title":{"rendered":"Shea Walsh talks about his children&#8217;s story The Irish Experiences of Bearly Able and Gonzo (Book 3)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shea Walsh talks about his children&#8217;s novel, The Irish Experiences of Bearly Able and Gonzo Book 3.<br \/>\nA tale of two bears who journey by boat as stowaways from America to Ireland and explore South-West Ireland from Cork to Galway and back again.<br \/>\nThey camp out near National Monument sites and ruins of old churches as these places usually offer solitude and undisturbed quietness.<br \/>\nAlso the stone circles have a celestial aspect connected to the night sky which the two black bears use as a guide for their bearings.<br \/>\nThey like to travel near rivers and the seacoasts where they can sample Ireland&#8217;s bountiful seafood.<br \/>\nBearly Able has &#8216;Asbeargers&#8217; Syndrome while his uncle Gonzo is a whizz on his laptop.<br \/>\nThe author Shea Walsh composed the tale by telling bed-time stories to his son and daughter when they were small children after they all saw a solitary black bear near their home in Florida.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4268\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/PodcastBearlyAbleSheaWalsh.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('4268','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/PodcastBearlyAbleSheaWalsh.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\/PodcastBearlyAbleSheaWalsh.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=45288-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/PodcastBearlyAbleSheaWalsh.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"PodcastBearlyAbleSheaWalsh.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 9:07 &#8212; 20.9MB)<\/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>Shea Walsh talks about his children&#8217;s novel, The Irish Experiences of Bearly Able and Gonzo Book 3. A tale of two bears who journey by boat as stowaways from America to Ireland and explore South-West Ireland from Cork to Galway and back again. They camp out near National Monument sites and ruins of old churches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4269\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/PodcastBearlyAbleSheaWalsh.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('4269','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/PodcastBearlyAbleSheaWalsh.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\/PodcastBearlyAbleSheaWalsh.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=45288-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/PodcastBearlyAbleSheaWalsh.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"PodcastBearlyAbleSheaWalsh.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 9:07 &#8212; 20.9MB)<\/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":45289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,33],"tags":[21807,21819,21824,21823,21814,21818,21820,21822,21816,21813,21811,731,21815,21817,15752,21812,21810,21808,18079,21809,13788,21806,21821],"class_list":["post-45288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-2","category-listenagain","tag-ailwee-caves","tag-america","tag-asbeargers-syndrome","tag-asbergers","tag-athenry","tag-big-bear-little-bear-constellations","tag-black-bears","tag-book-4","tag-cahir","tag-cairns","tag-cashel","tag-cork","tag-county-clare","tag-fota-island","tag-galway","tag-glendalough","tag-poul-na-bron","tag-pre-historic-ancestors","tag-shea-walsh","tag-stone-circles","tag-the-burren","tag-the-irish-experiences-of-bearly-able-and-gonzo","tag-uncle-gonzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45288","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=45288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45560,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45288\/revisions\/45560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}