{"id":46961,"date":"2019-02-19T04:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T09:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46961"},"modified":"2019-02-17T09:13:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T14:13:28","slug":"irish-potato-famine-isle-of-blight-extra-history-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/02\/19\/irish-potato-famine-isle-of-blight-extra-history-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Potato Famine &#8211; Isle of Blight &#8211; Extra History &#8211; #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gAnT21xGdSk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Extra Credits<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 16 Feb 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The potato blight hit the United States first before it came to Ireland (and other countries). But what made it particularly devastating in Ireland was the factor of human influence &mdash; behind-the-scenes bureaucracy that prioritized economics over human lives.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish Potato Famine ranks as one of Europe&#8217;s worst agricultural disasters &mdash; scattering a people to the winds.<\/p>\n<p>Join us on Patreon! <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/EHPatreon\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/EHPatreon<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extra Credits Published on 16 Feb 2019 The potato blight hit the United States first before it came to Ireland (and other countries). But what made it particularly devastating in Ireland was the factor of human influence &mdash; behind-the-scenes bureaucracy that prioritized economics over human lives. The Irish Potato Famine ranks as one of Europe&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,62,74,7],"tags":[924,33],"class_list":["post-46961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-europe","category-food","category-history","tag-farming","tag-ireland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-cdr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46962,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46961\/revisions\/46962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}