{"id":1826,"date":"2009-03-17T12:11:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T17:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2009-03-17T12:36:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T17:36:17","slug":"happy-st-paddys-day-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/17\/happy-st-paddys-day-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy St. Paddy’s Day 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

My father was a co-author on a book about lasers. I will always remember a drawing he did to show the difference between coherent and incoherent light. The coherent light showed a bunch of stick figures marching in the St. Paddy\u2019s day parade before the bars opened in nice straight lines. Incoherent light are a bunch of stick figures meandering around aimlessly in the St. Paddy day parade after the bars opened. I don\u2019t think that is how it went into the final book but that is how I remember the difference between coherent and incoherent light for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n

I am proud of my Irish heritage. I am equally proud of my Polish heritage. I am also proud that in America it is possible for someone to have more than one heritage. I think of my ancestors and what they did to get to this country so that I could be here now and it is rather amazing.<\/p>\n

In school I learned at an early age that you wore green on St. Paddy\u2019s day or you got pinched. So I made it a point to wear green until High School and then I avoided wearing green on St. Paddy\u2019s day with the reasoning that I was \u00bd Irish therefore I didn\u2019t need to wear green. This morning I dressed Caroline in a green shirt and explained what it was for. She sighed and agreed to wear the shirt to avoid the pinch.<\/p>\n

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I am grateful that I celebrated St. Patrick\u2019s Day at a local Irish Pub. \u00c9irinn go Br\u00e1ch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My father was a co-author on a book about lasers. I will always remember a drawing he did to show the difference between coherent and incoherent light. The coherent light showed a bunch of stick figures marching in the St. Paddy\u2019s day parade before the bars opened in nice straight lines. Incoherent light are a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}