New York is feeling really, really green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first recorded St. Patrick\u2019s Day parade in New York City was way back in 1762, and was organized by Irish soldiers serving in the British Army. It wasn\u2019t much of a piss-up, and wouldn\u2019t become one for another 100 years or so. But after the potato famine, New York became home to one of the largest Irish populations in the world. And as their numbers swelled, the Parade got jammers. Today, the New York City St. Patrick\u2019s Day parade is the city\u2019s largest, with an average attendance of around 2 million. The place is rubber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2023, March 17 fell on a Friday, which is a pretty great day for holding a parade. But the weather was raw, with temperatures in the 50s, little sun and a whole lot of wind. So some folks might have been looking forward to 2024, when the 17th<\/sup> would shift forward one day to a Saturday, which always makes everything jammers and produces quite the hooley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But stall the ball! Some folks are just realizing that, since 2024 is a Leap Year, the 17th<\/sup> went all arseways, jumped right past Saturday and landed on Sunday. That\u2019s banjaxed, it\u2019s diabolical!<\/p>\n\n\n\n One might think that that might keep folks off the drink, but then one would be an \u2018eejit. Since there\u2019s no drinking on Jayzuz\u2019 Day, the only rational thing to do\u2026unless you are off your rocker\u2026is move the Parade\u2026 to the previous Saturday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, no worries, everything\u2019s crackers. And, looking forward, it will be only 4 years until we come to the next Friday\/Saturday sequence in 2028\/2029, and New York will once again be biennually bolloxed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019re on the pig\u2019s back. The Big Apple is about to pissed paralytic by Paddy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York is feeling really, really green. The first recorded St. Patrick\u2019s Day parade in New York City was way back in 1762, and was organized by Irish soldiers serving in the British Army. It wasn\u2019t much of a piss-up, and wouldn\u2019t become one for another 100 years or so.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Paddys.png?fit=1241%2C822&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2028,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions\/2028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}