{"id":27521,"date":"2021-01-18T09:41:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T15:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27521"},"modified":"2021-01-18T09:41:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T15:41:44","slug":"it-seems-like-a-gift-in-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/18\/it-seems-like-a-gift-in-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"It Seems Like A Gift In Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/26\/the-christmas-gifts-of-nogglestead-only-slightly-snarked\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">I mentioned<\/a>, I gave my boys for Christmas pieces of paper that announce they are lords of Sealand and Scotland.  What am I expecting in return?  Well, this wouldn&#8217;t hurt: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/inside-18million-mansion-no-one-23336474\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Inside the \u00a318million mansion no one wants that takes 30 minutes to walk through<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/irishabbey.jpg\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An 18th Century mansion is up for sale at a guide price of \u00a318m and is so big it takes 30 minutes to walk through.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish estate includes part of ancient woodland and is made up of 1,050 acres.<\/p>\n<p>The abbey was set up by a group of monks back in the mid-12th century, in Co Laois, and is the most expensive property publicly listed in the Republic of Ireland right now.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">* * * *<\/p>\n<p>The mansion was built by James Wyatt in 1773, and includes nine bedrooms, 10 bathrooms as well as 10 lodges and cottages on the grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Abbey Leix comprises of 26,910 square feet of private estate, ancient woodland and even the country&#8217;s oldest oak tree.<\/p>\n<p>The stunning country house is positioned within a private estate and frontage to the River Nore.<\/p>\n<p>It takes a full half-hour to tour the three-storey mansion alone, and extra to walk around the immediate grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The house is filled with classic Irish furniture an art, which some is available to acquire if new owners want to buy them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Forget the furniture; what&#8217;s the <strike>serf<\/strike> tenant situation?  Do I have people to work the land for me, or will I have to raid Scotland on my own?<\/p>\n<p>Wait a minute:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The original library was replaced with the new state dining room but a smaller library remains in its place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, never mind then.  I&#8217;ll have to spend my thirty dollars somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wait a minute: I have just been handed a note.  Apparently, the exchange rate is not $30 to  \u00a318,000,000.  I must have confused it with Euros.  Perhaps I should pay more attention to exchange rates before I direct my real estate professional to make an offer next time.  It will prevent international incidents like that one in the future, and I might not get officially banned from St. Patrick&#8217;s Day celebrations in the future and being put on the Guinness No-Buy list.  Consider this my mealy-worded apology that does not work anyway and only serves to make me look weak.  Thank you, that is all.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned, I gave my boys for Christmas pieces of paper that announce they are lords of Sealand and Scotland. What am I expecting in return? Well, this wouldn&#8217;t hurt: Inside the \u00a318million mansion no one wants that takes 30 minutes to walk through: An 18th Century mansion is up for sale at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27523,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27521\/revisions\/27523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}