{"id":1922,"date":"2014-04-30T21:40:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T04:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2014-04-30T21:40:53","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T04:40:53","slug":"when-did-i-first-visit-portora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/30\/when-did-i-first-visit-portora\/","title":{"rendered":"When *DID* I First Visit Portora?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/portora_reallysmall.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1923\" alt=\"portora_reallysmall\" src=\"http:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/portora_reallysmall-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/portora_reallysmall-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/portora_reallysmall.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In writing an article for my memoir, I suddenly am wondering when, exactly, did I first step foot in Portora Royal? My older brother, Roger, went to Dungannon Royal for a short time in 1970, but somewhere along the line we visited Portora, in Enniskillen. Was it before going to Portugal, after coming back, or some other time? I don&#8217;t know, but \u00a0do I remember the headmaster asking Roger what he thought of his fine school and him being brutally honest and saying he thought it was a load of&#8230;well, no need to go into details. The headmaster then called him a liar and my mom swore we&#8217;d never set foot in Portora ever again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I ended up spending 1977-1981 at Portora.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In writing an article for my memoir, I suddenly am wondering when, exactly, did I first step foot in Portora Royal? My older brother, Roger, went to Dungannon Royal for a short time in 1970, but somewhere along the line &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/30\/when-did-i-first-visit-portora\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-troubles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1924,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions\/1924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}