{"id":3206,"date":"2008-03-06T07:24:20","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T12:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/perfect_--_i_gave_up_danny_boy_for_lent.html"},"modified":"2008-03-06T07:27:13","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T12:27:13","slug":"perfect_--_i_gave_up_danny_boy_for_lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/perfect_--_i_gave_up_danny_boy_for_lent.html","title":{"rendered":"Perfect — I Already Gave Up “Danny Boy” For Lent . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Some establishments ban cell phones, while others must crack down on “Danny Boy”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A Manhattan pub owner is banning the St. Patrick’s Day standard from his bar for the entire month of March.<\/p>\n

“St. Patrick’s Day is supposed to be a happy day. Do we have to sing a song that says, ‘Come and visit me when I’m dead’?” griped Shaun Clancy, owner of Foley’s Pub & Restaurant on W. 33rd St. near Fifth Ave.<\/p>\n

Clancy, who grew up in Ireland, is so tired of hearing “Danny Boy” he’d like to see it hushed from glen to glen.<\/p>\n

“There is more to Ireland than ‘Danny Boy’ and Lucky Charms,” Clancy said.<\/p>\n

Clancy is offering a free Guinness to patrons who sing any other traditional Irish tune at the pub’s March 11 pre-St. Patrick’s Day bash. He also will give out surprise gifts to patrons who refrain from singing the song throughout this month during the pub’s regular Tuesday night karaoke events.<\/p>\n

“It’s overplayed,” Clancy, 38, said of the song written in 1910 by English lawyer Frederick Weatherly, who had never even visited the Emerald Isle.<\/p>\n

“It’s been ranked among the 25 most depressing songs of all time,” Clancy said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some establishments ban cell phones, while others must crack down on “Danny Boy”: A Manhattan pub owner is banning the St. Patrick’s Day standard from his bar for the entire month of March. “St. Patrick’s Day is supposed to be a happy day. Do we have to sing a song that says, ‘Come and visit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-huzzah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}