{"id":331,"date":"2006-09-19T22:00:27","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/09\/19\/the-land-of-lunatics\/"},"modified":"2006-09-19T22:00:27","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T21:00:27","slug":"the-land-of-lunatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/2006\/09\/19\/the-land-of-lunatics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Land of Lunatics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his first foray into the world of writing for the new McGarr Solicitors site, my father has pointed out that, without noticing it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie\/2006\/09\/16\/new-laws-for-old\/\">Ireland lost a lot of long-standing laws last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst them the mysteriously titled Prerogativa Regis (Royal Prerogatives) &#8216;the Land of Lunatics&#8217; and &#8216;the Land of Idiots&#8217;- which have been in force here since about the 11th Century.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly neither the law, nor the his post, suggests where these Lands may have been located, though I am sure that we all have our own suspicions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his first foray into the world of writing for the new McGarr Solicitors site, my father has pointed out that, without noticing it, Ireland lost a lot of long-standing laws last year. Amongst them the mysteriously titled Prerogativa Regis (Royal Prerogatives) &#8216;the Land of Lunatics&#8217; and &#8216;the Land of Idiots&#8217;- which have been in force here since about the 11th Century. Sadly neither the law, nor the his post, suggests where these Lands may have been located, though I am sure that we all have our own suspicions.","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-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","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=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}