{"id":5473,"date":"2009-03-17T02:13:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T01:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slipserver.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/meaney-voices-irish-simpsons-episode\/"},"modified":"2009-08-22T08:13:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T15:13:50","slug":"meaney-voices-irish-simpsons-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/03\/meaney-voices-irish-simpsons-episode\/","title":{"rendered":"Meaney Voices Irish Simpsons Episode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Colm Meaney<\/b>, best known to <i>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/i> fans as Miles O&#8217;Brien, will be lending his voice talents to the <i>In the Name of the Grandfather<\/i> episode of <i>The Simpsons<\/i> due to air this week.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/images\/news\/031609ASimpsons.gif\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" width=\"168\" height=\"200\" \/>As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herald.ie\/\">Herald.ie<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locatetv.com\/\">LocateTV<\/a>, Homer, feeling guilty over neglecting Grampa, makes it up to him by granting him the wish of his choice, which ends up being a trip to the Emerald Isle.<!--more-->Once in Ireland, Grampa and Homer drop by Grampa&#8217;s favorite pub from his army days but they find that things have changed and not for the better. The pair end up buying the bar from pub owner Tom O&#8217;Flanagan, voiced by Meaney.<\/p>\n<p><i>In the Name of the Grandfather<\/i> airs on Sunday night on Fox at 8:00 P.M. However, U.K. Sky 1 viewers will get a St. Patrick&#8217;s Day airing five days ahead of the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>To read more, head to the articles located <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herald.ie\/entertainment\/tv-radio\/can-the--simpsons--ever-be-beaten-1674429.html\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locatetv.com\/tv\/simpsons\/season-20\/6148461\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colm Meaney, best known to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fans as Miles O&#8217;Brien, will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2540,2541],"class_list":["post-5473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-meaney","tag-the-simpsons"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7068,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473\/revisions\/7068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}