{"id":1282,"date":"2012-01-01T11:37:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T11:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2012-01-01T11:44:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T11:44:16","slug":"2011-the-year-in-mischief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/2012\/01\/01\/2011-the-year-in-mischief\/","title":{"rendered":"2011: The Year in Mischief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2514826383_12376b8bfd_z.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1285\" title=\"Comic Mischief\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2514826383_12376b8bfd_z.jpeg\" alt=\"used under cc, by justinsomnia\" width=\"389\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2514826383_12376b8bfd_z.jpeg 389w, https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2514826383_12376b8bfd_z-300x183.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ireland is a staggeringly conservative and conformist society. Conventional wisdom riddles every conversation be it private or broadcast, in print or in the home. Consequently, the impulse to cause mischief should be welcomed as a healthy corrective to stagnation and the denial of reality. Not every\u00a0mischievous\u00a0act is admirable, but mischief is, on balance, a force for good. Here then are the top pieces of mischief from 2011, as suggested by my Twitter followers.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Tweet during Presidential Debate which was put to Sean JOBS! Gallagher and caused him to mention envelopes. Was always going to top the poll, unlike the candidate. (per <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/faduda\">@faduda<\/a> and everyone)<\/li>\n<li>Gavin Sheridan&#8217;s victory in having NAMA declared a public authority and therefore amenable to requests for Information under EU law. The most\u00a0secretive\u00a0of creatures meets the most remorseless. (per <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ElaineEdwards\">@ElaineEdwards<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Throwing FF out of their traditional big meeting room because they didn&#8217;t have the numbers after the election to justify it. Somebody just got a burst of mischief and ran with it. It was sweet. (per <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Oireachtas_RX\">@Oireachtas_RX<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Occupying Dame Street. Setting up and manning a shanty town at the foot of the Central Bank is a very useful reminder to the weekly visitors from abroad that there are limits to what can be imposed on a society. And it looks pleasingly homespun. (per me)<\/li>\n<li>Hacking the FG database after FG denied they had any potential security problems with their data system. (per <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/daraghobrien\">@Daraghobrien<\/a>\u00a0who was the person who first warned they were at risk)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To five pieces of mischief in Ireland in 2011.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}