{"id":18368,"date":"2015-03-17T06:03:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T10:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=18368"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:13:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:13:19","slug":"take-a-walk-on-the-irish-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/03\/17\/take-a-walk-on-the-irish-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Take A Walk on the Irish Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18370\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/03\/17\/take-a-walk-on-the-irish-side\/bradleyfamily\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/BradleyFamily.jpg?fit=640%2C510&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,510\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BradleyFamily\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/BradleyFamily.jpg?fit=640%2C510&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18370\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/BradleyFamily.jpg?resize=640%2C510&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"BradleyFamily\" width=\"640\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/BradleyFamily.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/BradleyFamily.jpg?resize=300%2C239&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since it&#8217;s St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, I thought I&#8217;d give the Irish side of my family some equal time. This photo is of my grandfather, George Bradley (seated on the left) and his family, taken sometime in the early 1930s.<\/p>\n<p>The photo was a bit faded, and the lower right hand corner was torn off. I did a tonal adjustment, burned in some areas, and repaired the missing corner.\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">The original photo is behind the cut. Happy St. Patrick&#8217;s Day!\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18372\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/03\/17\/take-a-walk-on-the-irish-side\/bradley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bradley.jpg?fit=640%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bradley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bradley.jpg?fit=640%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18372\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bradley.jpg?resize=640%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Bradley\" width=\"640\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bradley.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bradley.jpg?resize=300%2C234&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since it&#8217;s St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, I thought I&#8217;d give the Irish side of my family some equal time. This photo is of my grandfather, George Bradley (seated on the left) and his family, taken sometime in the early 1930s. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/03\/17\/take-a-walk-on-the-irish-side\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,3113],"tags":[3471,3470,1074,2413,1454],"class_list":["post-18368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-photo-restoration-2","tag-fort-fairfield","tag-george-j-bradley","tag-maine","tag-st-patricks-day","tag-vintage-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4Mg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12242,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/03\/16\/chocolate-mint-cupcakes\/","url_meta":{"origin":18368,"position":0},"title":"Chocolate Mint Cupcakes","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"March 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I wonder who decided to combine chocolate and mint, was it the Girl Scouts or did a farmer eating a candy bar trip and fall into a patch of mint? 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