{"id":10368,"date":"2026-03-15T21:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=10368"},"modified":"2026-03-15T21:57:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:57:37","slug":"knick-nacks-paddywhacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2026\/03\/15\/knick-nacks-paddywhacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Knick Nacks &amp; Paddywhacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With Finn &amp; Margot laying a bit low this year, Hen &amp; I carried on our family tradition of attending San Francisco&#8217;s joyously warm &amp; diverse St. Patrick&#8217;s Day parade. From bikers to wolfhounds, the parade has something for everyone\u2014and &#8220;It sure was Redhead O&#8217;Clock,&#8221; as Hen observed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We took Caltrain up to the city, then enjoyed our first Waymo driverless robo-taxi ride (!) en route to the festivities. After enjoying the parade, we took Muni over to meet up with our friend Rob for a great walking tour of the Castro neighborhood. Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/ZSoaqyzMimRJov4p6\">our photos &amp; videos from the parade.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/ZSoaqyzMimRJov4p6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/St.-Paddys-2026-100-COLLAGE-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10371\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/St.-Paddys-2026-100-COLLAGE-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/St.-Paddys-2026-100-COLLAGE-1-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/St.-Paddys-2026-100-COLLAGE-1-200x200.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/St.-Paddys-2026-100-COLLAGE-1-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/St.-Paddys-2026-100-COLLAGE-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/St.-Paddys-2026-100-COLLAGE-1-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/St.-Paddys-2026-100-COLLAGE-1.jpg 1945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And just in case you\u2019re feeling nostalgic, here are some celebrations from years gone by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2009\/03\/17\/happy-st-paddys\/\">Happy St. Paddy\u2019s!<\/a>\u00a0(2009)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2015\/03\/17\/ancient-hibernian-greetings\/\">Ancient Hibernian Greetings<\/a>\u00a0(2009)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2010\/03\/17\/happy-st-paddys-from-the-nack-leprechauns\/\">Happy St. Paddy\u2019s from the Nack Leprechauns<\/a>\u00a0(2010)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2011\/03\/17\/go-i-nish\/\">Go I-nish!<\/a>\u00a0(2011)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2012\/03\/17\/happy-st-pats\/\">Happy St. Pat\u2019s!<\/a>\u00a0(2012)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2014\/03\/20\/erin-go-blam\/\">Erin Go BLAM!!<\/a>\u00a0(2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2015\/03\/17\/leprechaun-traps\/\">Leprechaun Traps!<\/a>\u00a0(2015)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2016\/03\/15\/happy-st-pats-2\/\">Happy St. Pat\u2019s!<\/a>\u00a0(2016)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/category\/photos\/st-patricks-day\/\">Operation Disgruntled Leprechaun<\/a>\u00a0(2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2019\/04\/01\/quick-st-paddys-leftovers\/\">Quick St. Paddy\u2019s leftovers<\/a>\u00a0(2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2024\/03\/23\/here-come-the-irish-2024\/\">Here Come The Irish<\/a>\u00a0(2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/category\/photos\/st-patricks-day\/\">Irish Ramblin\u2019 2025<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Finn &amp; Margot laying a bit low this year, Hen &amp; I carried on our family tradition of attending San Francisco&#8217;s joyously warm &amp; diverse St. Patrick&#8217;s Day parade. From bikers to wolfhounds, the parade has something for everyone\u2014and &#8220;It sure was Redhead O&#8217;Clock,&#8221; as Hen observed. We took Caltrain up to the city, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-st-patricks-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10368"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10375,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10368\/revisions\/10375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}