{"id":104,"date":"2020-12-15T19:06:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T19:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2021-01-01T14:41:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T14:41:05","slug":"there-is-optimism-and-there-is-naivety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2020\/12\/15\/there-is-optimism-and-there-is-naivety\/","title":{"rendered":"There is optimism and there is naivety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/donegalnews.com\/2020\/12\/minister-discusses-resurrecting-donegals-rail-links\/\">Donegal News<\/a> reports on a meeting held between representatives of a campaign group calling itself &#8220;Into the West&#8221; and Eamon Ryan TD, Minister for Transport, to advocate for a restoration of railway lines into Donegal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much as I support the encouragement of rail travel and the development of existing\/new routes to do so, methinks that this group is on a hiding to nothing on this one. The only railways in Donegal for the forseeable future will be that at Fintown and Sir Gerry Robinson&#8217;s private line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Donegal News reports on a meeting held between representatives of a campaign group calling itself &#8220;Into the West&#8221; and Eamon Ryan TD, Minister for Transport, to advocate for a restoration of railway lines into Donegal. Much as I support the encouragement of rail travel and the development of existing\/new routes to do so, methinks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}