{"id":46288,"date":"2023-01-20T20:09:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T20:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=46288"},"modified":"2023-01-20T20:14:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T20:14:19","slug":"northsider-poet-ger-devine-sits-down-with-nearfm-john-connell-in-a-noisy-cafe-early-one-morning-in-december-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=46288","title":{"rendered":"Fireman and poet Ger Devine spoke with NearFM&#8217;s John Connell in a noisy caf\u00e9 early one morning in December 2022."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northsider Ger Devine works as a Fireman and writes poetry with rhythm and rhyme. The Lifeline interview with Ger was recorded in a caf\u00e9 in Dun Laoghaire early one morning in December 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Please excuse the noisy background !<br \/>\nGer reads aloud three poems,<em> The Wooden Bridge, Driftwood, The Quarryman<\/em> (Ballyknockan, County Wicklow)<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2521\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/firemanpoetgerdevinedecember2020.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('2521','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/firemanpoetgerdevinedecember2020.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\/firemanpoetgerdevinedecember2020.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=46288-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/firemanpoetgerdevinedecember2020.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"firemanpoetgerdevinedecember2020.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 22:46 &#8212; 52.1MB)<\/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>Northsider Ger Devine works as a Fireman and writes poetry with rhythm and rhyme. The Lifeline interview with Ger was recorded in a caf\u00e9 in Dun Laoghaire early one morning in December 2022. Please excuse the noisy background ! Ger reads aloud three poems, The Wooden Bridge, Driftwood, The Quarryman (Ballyknockan, County Wicklow)<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2522\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/firemanpoetgerdevinedecember2020.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('2522','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/firemanpoetgerdevinedecember2020.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\/firemanpoetgerdevinedecember2020.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=46288-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/firemanpoetgerdevinedecember2020.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"firemanpoetgerdevinedecember2020.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 22:46 &#8212; 52.1MB)<\/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":46339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[22225,22229,927,22227,22224,22223,22230,3919,22228,22226,22222,22221,4882],"class_list":["post-46288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listenagain","tag-ballyknockan","tag-county-wicklow","tag-dollymount-strand","tag-driftwood","tag-fireman","tag-ger-devine","tag-northside-dublin","tag-poet","tag-rhyme-and-rhythm","tag-the-quarryman","tag-the-queen-of-dublin-3","tag-the-wooden-bridge","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46288","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=46288"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46342,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46288\/revisions\/46342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}