{"id":2935,"date":"2018-12-10T12:58:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T12:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/?p=2935"},"modified":"2019-01-09T16:37:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T16:37:35","slug":"banter-at-first-fortnight-206-jan-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banter.test\/banter-at-first-fortnight-206-jan-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Banter at First Fortnight (206, Jan 2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the sixth year in a row, we&#8217;re very pleased and proud to be involved in the <a href=\"http:\/\/firstfortnight.ie\">First Fortnight<\/a> mental health arts festival. It&#8217;s a superb initiative which puts the focus firmly on\u00a0challenging mental health prejudice through arts and cultural action at the very start of the year.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re joined for this event by All-Ireland winning hurler <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/FezFez121\">Seamus Hennessy<\/a>. He will be\u00a0talking about his life in hurling and his experiences growing up dealing with the traumatic experience of his mother\u2019s suicide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Unknown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2940\" src=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Unknown.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seamus has helped to raise awareness around the issue of suicide particularly in relation to helping families cope with the tragedy of suicide and is about to embark on<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/runningforjosie\"> the gruelling challenge of the Antarctic Marathon<\/a> where he hopes to raise<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H8kGLPePCk\"> \u20ac200,000<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/pieta.ie\">Pieta House<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tipperarylivinglinks.ie\">Living Links Tipperary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This event takes place at The Workman&#8217;s Club (Wellington Quay, Dublin 2) on Wednesday January 16th. Doors open at 7pm and tickets are available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstfortnight.ie\/events\/banter\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the sixth year in a row, we&#8217;re very pleased and proud to be involved in the First Fortnight mental health arts festival. It&#8217;s a superb initiative which puts the focus firmly on\u00a0challenging mental health prejudice through arts and cultural action at the very start of the year. We&#8217;re joined for this event by All-Ireland &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/banter-at-first-fortnight-206-jan-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Banter at First Fortnight (206, Jan 2019)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2943,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions\/2943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}