{"id":647,"date":"2011-03-18T22:33:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T21:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/?p=647"},"modified":"2018-05-25T09:35:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T09:35:18","slug":"president-obama-to-visit-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"President Obama to visit Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was  reported today that president Obama may visit Kilkenny during his official visit to Ireland in May 2011.  On behalf of Kilkenny City  the Keep kilkenny Beautiful Committee look forward to extending  a warm welcome to President Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Work is already underway in preparing Kilkenny for the 2011 National tidy Towns Competition.  In 2010 kilkenny achieved a gold medal and  was also awarded  the title of  Best large urban centre in the country.<\/p>\n<p>A tomb in the historic  St Canice\u2019s  Cathedral has  the remains of Bishop John  Kearney (c.1742\u20131813), who was Mr Obama\u2019s great-great-great-granduncle. He  became  provost of Trinity College Dublin in  1799 and was bishop of Ossory 1806-1813. His home in Kilkenny was the historic Bishops palace which is located adjacent to the cathedral and still in use to day by the Heritage council.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/aug-5-2010-210-Copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-648\" title=\"aug 5 2010 210 - Copy\" src=\"https:\/\/keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/aug-5-2010-210-Copy-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/aug-5-2010-210-Copy-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/aug-5-2010-210-Copy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/aug-5-2010-210-Copy-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/aug-5-2010-210-Copy.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was reported today that president Obama may visit Kilkenny during his official visit to Ireland in May 2011. On behalf of Kilkenny City the Keep kilkenny Beautiful Committee look forward to extending a warm welcome to President Obama. Work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/?p=647\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,10],"tags":[27,74,75,116,134,294,303,317,322,362,392,403,436,554,561,583],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cityscape","category-kilkenny-city","category-news","tag-america","tag-bishop","tag-bishop-john-kearney","tag-cathedral","tag-city","tag-ireland","tag-john-kearney","tag-kilkenny","tag-kkb","tag-may","tag-obama","tag-ossory","tag-president","tag-trinity-college","tag-visit","tag-welcome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3338,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/3338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}