{"id":35046,"date":"2026-01-05T12:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35046"},"modified":"2026-01-05T12:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:46:13","slug":"dublin-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35046","title":{"rendered":"Dublin Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On New Year&#8217;s Day, I mentioned that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35036\">I plan upon read James Joyce&#8217;s <i>Ulysses<\/i> this year<\/a>.  I started last night.<\/p>\n<p>I have tried reading <i>Ulysses<\/i> before.  This may be my <i>fourth<\/i> attempt.  I tried reading it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5808\">in 2011<\/a>, and ran aground somewhere.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=6219\">In 2012<\/a>, I went to a Bloomsday reading in Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve tried it since then.<\/p>\n<p>But, I have started!  Again!  I have podcasts!  I have <i>two<\/i> radio adaptations!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve changed my desktop wallpaper to something appropriate for Dublin!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot_20260105_123117-1200x675.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of my desktop wallpaper, showing the counter of a Dublin pub and a window open with the first page of Ulysses in an ebook reader\" class=\"aligncenter size-fullwidth wp-image-35045\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The terminal ebook reader is <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/wustho\/epr\">EPR<\/a>.  The <i>Ulysses<\/i> ebook is the version from <a href=\"https:\/\/standardebooks.org\/ebooks\/james-joyce\/ulysses\">Standard Ebooks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have a print edition, too, though the Dover edition I mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5808\">in 2011<\/a> I seem to have lost.<\/p>\n<p>I will do this. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On New Year&#8217;s Day, I mentioned that I plan upon read James Joyce&#8217;s Ulysses this year. I started last night. I have tried reading Ulysses before. This may be my fourth attempt. I tried reading it in 2011, and ran aground somewhere. In 2012, I went to a Bloomsday reading in Baltimore. I don&#8217;t believe<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35046\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Dublin Time&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[5380,203,204,5146,4121],"class_list":["post-35046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","tag-dublin","tag-ireland","tag-james-joyce","tag-linux-mint-debian-edition","tag-ulysses","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}